Flux happily offers a moving appraisal of lives buffeted by personal and systemic traumas a
deep dive into the good the bad and the ugly of self-serving corporate culture and no
shortage of wait what the heck just happened? thrills. -- The New York Times Book Review
Brazen exhilarating fun and surprising! I couldn't predict where this novel was going but I
was definitely along for the ride. -- Ling Ma author of Severance A blazingly original and
stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious
employers have inadvertently discovered time travel and are using it to cover up a string of
violent crimes . . . Four days before Christmas 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic
accident 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer
and 48-year-old Blue a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech
startup struggles to reconnect with his family. So begins Jinwoo Chong s dazzling
time-bending debut that blends elements of neo-noir and speculative fiction as the lives of Bo
Brandon and Blue begin to intersect uncovering a vast network of secrets and an experimental
technology that threatens to upend life itself. Intertwined with them is the saga of an iconic
80s detective show Raider whose star actor has imploded spectacularly after revelations of
long-term concealed abuse. Flux is a haunting and sometimes shocking exploration of the
cyclical nature of grief of moving past trauma and of the pervasive nature of whiteness
within the development of Asian identity in America.
