{"product_id":"flashlight-hardcover-1","title":"Flashlight - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Choi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Must-Read: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Town \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The first major American novel to be published this year.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Sam Worley, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Devastating.\" --Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ranks among her best work.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Hamilton Cain, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A major world writer . . . Choi is in thrilling command.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of \u003ci\u003eTrust Exercise\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLouisa 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 Midwestern 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\u003eBut now it is just Anne and Louisa, Louisa and Anne, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United, separated, and also repelled by their mutual grief, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa's father? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea, \u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003echases the shock waves of one family's catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, \u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003espans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heartgripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.23 x 9.21 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264766984441,"sku":"9780374616373","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/AazoipWLG89780374616373_472b047e-cea3-4d83-a60d-c962f5108c19.webp?v=1768833134","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/flashlight-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}