A 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 in their lives will have astonishing
consequences.
But 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?
Shifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again
and again to that night by the sea, Flashlight chases the shock waves
of one family’s catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible
currents of history.
A monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi,
Flashlight spans 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.
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