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Flashlight by Susan Choi is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Vulture, USA Today, Forbes, and Literary HubA novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise. One 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 Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne's illegitimate son, whose reappearance...

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Susan Choi
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
2024
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Rating
3.96 / 5 (1,706 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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