Edward Austin Hall reviews Silvia Park’s Luminous and examines how Park presents transformative violence in a novel that remains tender.

Hall writes: “Luminous seems—maybe in another of Park’s prosodic japes—agnostic about what our arriving-faster-than-ever future holds...As I write these words, hope feels, to me, like yet another dwindling resource in the world. Nonetheless, hope remains free to anyone who can hold onto it. If I suppress my own feelings about the future, I can hope to read a novel that outdoes Luminous at bringing to dramatic life the myriad vagaries of technology in our lives, but I confess that doing so feels akin to praying for a miracle.” —Available to read now on ARTPAPERS.org. . . .