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