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Jinwoo Chong

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Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novels I Leave It Up to You and Flux, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and named a best book of 2023 by Esquire, Apple Books, HuffPost, GQ, Cosmopolitan, and Goodreads.

His short stories and other work have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, LitHub, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature.

He lives in New York.

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3.36 avg rating — 5,773 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions
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I loved this book, and not just because the author has the best first name I've ever heard. Sly and intelligent, glowing with heart, Oxford Soju Club combines a few books into one: spy thriller, restaurant novel, immigrant drama. I tore through this. ...more
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“That was one thing about memory. It often obeyed the capriciousness of a mind trying to hide from guilt, but one, always, had to live with the deceit.”
Jinwoo Chong, Flux

“I want you to comb through all the things you can name about the way people of our world consume energy, conserve energy, waste energy, how we are primed to accept the system for what it is and do nothing about it under a complex of fear. And when you’re done with all of that, I want you to forget it, all of it. I want you to listen to me and learn a new word: Flux.”
Jinwoo Chong, Flux

“because people, in some primitive and primordial way, need at least one thing in their lives to give meaning to everything they do, and since i had none, not anymore, it would have to be her.”
Jinwoo Chong, Flux

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message 1: by ree

ree hi Jinwoo, I hope your reading year is going well. I look forward to reading I Leave It Up To You.

take care,
ree


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