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Jinwoo Chong

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Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novel Flux, a New York Times Editors’ Choice that was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and named a best book of 2023 by Esquire, Apple Books, HuffPost, GQ, Cosmopolitan, and Goodreads. His short stories and other work have appeared widely in print and online. I Leave It Up to You is his second novel.

Books by Jinwoo Chong
Flux
Jinwoo Chong


  • A New York Times Editor’s Choice
  • Best Book of 2023 by Esquire, Apple Books, HuffPost, GQ, Cosmopolitan, and Goodreads.
  • Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
  • A CrimeReads Best Speculative Crime Fiction of 2023
  • VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
"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 employers have inadvertently discovered time travel and are covering up a string of violent crimes...

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