{"product_id":"flashlight","title":"Flashlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of President Obama's Favorite Books of 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"EXPLOSIVE.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\"GORGEOUS.\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\"SHOCKING.\" (NPR) \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\"DEVASTATING.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\"ASTONISHING.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\"MARVELOUS.\" (NBC's \u003ci\u003eWeekend Today in New York\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort-listed for the Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the National Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal - Long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction - Finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TeaTime and Get Lit Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \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\u003e \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\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, \u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003espans 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","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45920950649005,"sku":"9780374616373","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/6954\/9997\/files\/imageloader_4342a8f7-4321-4a00-b1e1-afedb09e13f7.jpg?v=1776540264","url":"https:\/\/thirdspacereadingroom.com\/products\/flashlight","provider":"ThirdSpace Reading Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}