With a title inspired by ‘Back to the Future,’ this debut novel explores a character struggling at different points in his life and the TV character he relies on.
In “Flux,” Jinwoo Chong’s riveting and distinctive debut novel, things are not what they seem.
Then there’s Blue, as Bo/Brandon is known at age 48. Blue is dragged out of obscurity to help an ambitious TV show doing an exposé looking back at Flux’s misdeeds; Blue ultimately sees this as one last opportunity to set things right in his life, despite the potential price he might have to pay. The seed came when I read “Bad Blood,” a book about the fall of Theranos and decided I wanted to write about Theranos with time travel. Then I couldn’t let it go so even when it got complicated, it would have been like cutting off a limb so I ended up keeping everything.I was rife with insecurity.
My advisor in my MFA workshop told me my stories all have the same problem — the character doesn’t do anything, everything just happens to him. To me, that was the point, these characters observe the world and that made it easier to satirize their community and society. So I pushed back on that. Brandon is passive by design. I created his personal tragedy to legitimize that passivity.
Q. Two characters argue about whether a Korean American character was raised Korean enough. What’s your view?
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