Join fellow fiction enthusiasts to discuss critically acclaimed novels. This class focuses on Flashlight (2025) by Susan Choi.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (winner to be announced 11/10) and longlisted for the National Book Award (finalists to be announced 10/7, winner to be announced on 11/19), the latest work by acclaimed novelist Susan Choi traces a father’s mysterious disappearance and the impact on his wife and their only child Louisa. The father, Serk, an ethnic Korean raised in Japan, lost touch with his family when they relocated to North Korea. The mother, Anne, an American, is estranged from her midwestern family because of a teenage fling with a married man that resulted in the birth of a son. Anne and daughter Louisa, age ten at the time Serk was presumed to have drowned, struggle in their relationship as they deal with loss, grief, and the eventual appearance of the mother’s illegitimate son. Shifting perspectives among the characters across time, nations, and memory, unfurl in a thrilling, unpredictable, yet character-driven plot.
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