![]() ![]() In alarmingly similar fashion to Tartt’s Richard Papen, Will has left small-town California for an east coast college, where he aims to impress by rewriting history: “My mother’s house sailed south from dull, meth-addled Carmenita to the hills of Los Angeles.” It could be grief’s narrowed vision: I’ve noticed what I’ve lacked,” says Will Kendall, the book’s problematic narrator who relates events at Edwards University in the fictional town of Noxhurst. “It’s possible these are just the details I’ve saved. ![]() Mystery that involves much second guessing and questioning of memory. Working class narrator who invents a preppy persona to hide his roots? Check. The stylish writing and interesting subject matter are lost in a plodding narrative that feels like a paint-by-numbers attempt at Donna Tartt's The Secret History. ![]() An elite American college, two outsiders in a love-at-first-sight relationship, a former student turned cult leader, a plot involving extremist terrorism and a damaged, grieving narrator who looks back on it all, trying to understand what went wrong.īut despite promising a tale of obsession, fanaticism and loss, RO Kwon's debut The Incendiaries fails to ignite. The raw materials are there for an explosive novel. ![]()
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