R.O. Kwon 권오경 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
In Greene’s novel, sexual and romantic passion are at least as urgent, as powerful, as the seductions of religious faith, and each time I reread The End of the Affair I hope against all reason that things will turn out differently than they did the last time around.
Paperback, 2004
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wrong End of the Telescope
Rabih Alameddine
this is next Monday! @michaeldlukas & I will talk with the wonderful @rabihalameddine about his new book, THE WRONG END OF THE TELESCOPE, online with @ElliottBayBooks ✨ https://t.co/cxO1ezbYP2
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Night Wherever We Go
Tracey Rose Peyton
Peyton’s debut novel is about six enslaved women in Texas who stage a rebellion against their owners. Kiese Laymon says that “Night Wherever We Go has the potential to change how Blacknesses, Texas and the nation are written about forever.”
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Read Now: Essays
Elaine Castillo
okay the wonderful Elaine Castillo is holding nothing back in her new book & my eyebrows have been singed off no big deal 🔥 (from HOW TO READ NOW, out from @VikingBooks in July) https://t.co/zJ8DizM4eS
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Girl
Aria Aber
Exhilarating... It’s thrilling to see her turn major poetic gifts toward the sweep of this Künstlerroman, the story of a young woman becoming other than she used to be... With her novel, Aber has made the world more spacious: More people will find a place to fit.
Hardcover, 2025
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Customs: Poems
Solmaz Sharif
The power and grace of Solmaz Sharif’s Customs extend from the first poems to the last lines of her acknowledgements, which end as follows: “Thank you, fear. That’s enough now.”
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi
An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality. I love this book’s understanding of how tightly grief can tangle itself with elation, and how loss might elicit possession. It is also riotously, delightfully queer... hallelujah
Paperback, 2023
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The Fetishist
Katherine Min
[Katherine Min] left behind an unfinished novel that her daughter, Kayla Min Andrews, has completed. The resulting collaboration, The Fetishist, about an ill-conceived kidnapping, is astonishing. I’m thankful this book exists.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
COUNTERFEIT by @kirstin_chen is out in June & it's a twisty, thrilling, gripping novel about the world of counterfeit luxury handbags https://t.co/gprBkXHQZw
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On the Rooftop
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
this book is SPECTACULAR. I cried & wondered & underlined so many sentences & passages. It’s a book with such depth & brilliance & y’all are going to love it a whole lot ✨
Paperback, 2023
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