Flashlight - Choi, Susan
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A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetimeOne night, Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. He's carrying the flashlight. He cannot swim. When Louisa awakens, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, likely drowned. She is ten years old. For the rest of her life, Louisa will be affected by that night-- the loss of her father, her inability to recover her memories, her anger at her mother for not joining them. What really…mehr

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A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetimeOne night, Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. He's carrying the flashlight. He cannot swim. When Louisa awakens, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, likely drowned. She is ten years old. For the rest of her life, Louisa will be affected by that night-- the loss of her father, her inability to recover her memories, her anger at her mother for not joining them. What really happened to Louisa's father? Why did they move to Japan that year? Who was the woman he took Louisa to see there? What was the mysterious illness that kept her mother home? And how can we connect, make a life, when there is so much we cannot see?
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Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest , was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction - and was a US bestseller (published by Serpent's Tail in the UK). She serves as a trustee of PEN America and teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.