RO Kwon, author of EXHIBIT - an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with RO Kwon, author of Exhibit. Cosponsored by AAPI Coalition of Wisconsin. Kwon will be in conversation with educator and activist Melissa Tempel.

At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to her college love Philip, and in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is an alluring, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives, the two women talk all night.

Cracked open, Jin finds herself telling Lidija about a old familial curse, breaking a lifelong promise. She's been told that if she doesn’t keep the curse a secret, she risks losing everything; death and ruin could lie ahead. As Jin and Lidija become more entangled, they realize they share more than the ferocity of their ambition, and begin to explore hidden desires. Something is ignited in Jin: her art, her body, and her sense of self irrevocably changed. But can she avoid the specter of the curse? Vital, bold, powerful, and deeply moving, Exhibit asks: how brightly can you burn before you light your life on fire?

From Madeline Miller: “In prose at once sharp and lush, Kwon crafts a gripping tale of a woman wrestling with the past, while boldly making her own future. A haunting and powerful exploration of art, racism, feminism, and desire, this novel will stay with me a long time.”

RO Kwon is the author of The Incendiaries, and with Garth Greenwell, coeditor of Kink.Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, and MacDowell.

Click here to order your copy of Exhibit from Boswell. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event. For this event, questions must be submitted in advance, and there are no posed photos.

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