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2018 selection · Fiction & literature
The Incendiaries: A Novel
The Incendiaries: A Novel by R.O. Kwon appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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