R.O. Kwon writes stunningly about the hunger for transcendence, for something larger than oneself, more encompassing than society. Her second novel, Exhibit, offers a brave, sometimes elliptical portrait of one woman’s liberation from the expectations of others. “A lot of the highly ambitious women I know and love feel a great deal of pressure to hide that ambition. I got curious about this dichotomy between what people want me to want and what I feel pressure to not want,” Kwon tells me about the seeds of the book, which she began writing in 2014. She wanted to see what would happen if she brought together women characters who want things for themselves and their art and let them “run after what they desire.”
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