{"product_id":"flashlight-susan-choi-hardcover-3","title":"Flashlight -- Susan Choi, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of the Year: \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Literary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of \u003ci\u003eTrust Exercise\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn chapters that shift from one member to the next, turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Susan Choi's \u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003echases the shockwaves of one family's catastrophe. Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, an ethnic Korean born and raised in Japan, lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to the DPRK. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne's illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat really happened to Louisa's father? Why did he take Louisa and her mother to Japan just before he disappeared? And how can we love, or make sense of our lives, when there's so much we can't see?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Choi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374616373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2025 pg. 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Cho\u003c\/b\u003ei is the author of \u003ci\u003eTrust Exercise\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the National Book Award for fiction, as well as the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Person of Interest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Education\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN\/W. G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary award, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Choi, Susan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46439777829092,"sku":"9780374616373","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780374616373.jpg?v=1778586809","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/flashlight-susan-choi-hardcover-3","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}