Book: Flux

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Flux
Jinwoo Chong
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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.

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This is… another one of those books that any comment I make would just be a spoiler, so I can’t really comment much.

I “listened” to this as an audio book but I wonder if this would have been a better book to be “read” instead of “listened.” There were times when the book was looping incidents again and again and I sort of lost track and wondered if I had accidentally pressed on the “go-back” button.

I liked the final twist that it doesn’t follow the normal concept of…. The topic of the issue in the book (I’m trying so hard not to spoil this haha).