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Susan Choi with John Whittier Treat: New Novel 'Flashlight' Illuminates Past, Present, and Politics
The discovery of a family secret can add layers to any story; likewise, when a character questions her own memories or when others around her doubt those memories or make attempts at gaslighting. Add to that mixture a healthy pull between familial and national allegiance. Whether or not your real life background is fraught with these types of conflict or uncertainty, you might be a reader who enjoys escaping in the pages of stories that tackle such issues.
Novelist Susan Choi’s 2019 coming-of-age book Trust Exercise won the National Book Award for fiction. She returns to discuss her latest release, Flashlight, which has already been hailed as a “Most Anticipated Book of the Year” by various outlets.
Choi’s chapters shift through different characters’ perspectives, tracing a father’s mysterious disappearance across time, nations, and memory. The story flows from a walk on the beach and journeys through things like family catastrophe, tension between past and present, cultural belonging, and generational geopolitics from Japan to North Korea. Complicated family dynamics surround the narrative as readers try to uncover what happened and how to make sense of life and love.
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