Flashlight - Susan Choi

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * The Guardian * Vanity Fair * Elle * Town & Country * Oprah Daily * The New York Post * 48 Hills * Financial Times * The Economist * Esquire (UK) * Kirkus Reviews * Electric Literature * PEN America * The Chicago Public Library * Los Angeles Review of BooksOne of President Obama's Favorite Books of 2025"EXPLOSIVE." (The New York Times Book Review) * "GORGEOUS." (New York) * "SHOCKING." (NPR) * "DEVASTATING." (The Washington Post) * "ASTONISHING." (The Atlantic) * "MARVELOUS." (NBC's Weekend Today in New York)Short-listed for the Booker Prize * Long-listed for the National Book Award * Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie MedalA TeaTime and Get Lit Book Club PickOne summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her family. But now it is just Anne and Louisa, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of catastrophe. United, separated, and also repelled by
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