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Kevin Nguyen is the features editor at The Verge and was formerly a senior editor at GQ. He's written for The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The Millions. He's a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the National Book Foundation Junior Committee, and has served as a judge for the PEN Open Book Award. Nguyen has been named one of 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture by Brooklyn Magazine and a Star Watch Honoree by Publishers Weekly. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A brilliant meditation on death and grief in the age of the internet. New Waves is full of modern noise and complicated love. Its prismatic, futuristic take on race and identity are a thrill to read. The book is funny and sad in equal measure, inventive, self-aware, full of insight, but also entirely enjoyable. --Tommy Orange, author of There There In New Waves, a grieving young man dives into the dizzying kaleidoscope of twenty-first-century online culture, trying to understand his lost friend and the difference between our real lives and our virtual ones--or is there one? Kevin Nguyen's debut is a knowing, witty, and thought-provoking exploration of love, modern isolation, and what it means to exist--especially as a person of color--in our increasingly digital age. --Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere Kevin Nguyen's New Waves collapses every tired distinction about the internet. In this novel of relationships, race, and loss, everything is both permanent and ephemeral--technology both preserves and buries culture, and the people who ghost you can also haunt you. With his swift, funny, and merciless prose, Nguyen smartly dissects how life online may be digital, but it's far from binary. --Tony Tulathimutte, award-winning author of Private Citizens New Waves is a delight and a gamble and a treasure and a miracle. Nguyen's novel broke my heart. It made me laugh harder than any book reasonably should. It's everything I could possibly want in a story--but it's also that rarest, most unachievable of things: New Waves is truly something new. --Bryan Washington, author of Lot New Waves is a virtuosic debut novel delving into the wild vicissitudes of living with, and on, the interned. I'll read anything by Kevin Nguyen. --R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries Mordant and fiercely smart, Kevin Nguyen's New Waves is a mystery within a mystery within a love story and it left me haunted, breathless. An ambitious, unsparing, exhilarating debut. --Megan Abbott, Edgar Award--winning author of You Will Know Me New Waves is not one novel, but several: an acerbic portrait of startup culture, a circa-now account of twentysomething life in New York City, a moving exploration of grief, and a clear-eyed appraisal of race, sex, and privilege. Nguyen deserves our loudest applause. --Ryan Chapman, author of Riots I Have Known Nguyen's stellar debut is a piercing assessment of young adulthood, the tech industry, and racism. . . . Nguyen impressively holds together his overlapping plot threads while providing incisive criticism of privilege and a dose of sharp humor. The story is fast-paced and fascinating, but also deeply felt; the effect is a page-turner with some serious bite. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
