{"product_id":"flashlight-1","title":"Flashlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eNPR \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e48 Hills\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e (UK) \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003ePEN America \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eThe Chicago Public Library \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Instantly bewitching . . . Susan Choi's fictional investigation reveals a writer at the height of her spectacular powers.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--Jennifer Egan, author of The Candy House\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 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 their mutual grief, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa's father?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heart-gripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Choi\u003c\/b\u003e 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":"Susan Choi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51255320871197,"sku":"9781250437822","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250437822.jpg?v=1778098600","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/flashlight-1","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}