{"product_id":"flashlight-a-novel","title":"Flashlight A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort-listed for the Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first major American novel to be published this year.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sam Worley, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Must-Read: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Town \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A major world writer . . . Choi is in thrilling command.” ―Dwight Garner,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Devastating.” —Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Ranks among her best work.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hamilton Cain, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of \u003ci\u003eTrust Exercise\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea, \u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003echases the shock waves of one family’s catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Raincoast","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52765470753136,"sku":"9780374616373","price":42.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/0463\/8832\/files\/9845143482321.jpg?v=1765227889","url":"https:\/\/papervalebooks.com\/products\/flashlight-a-novel","provider":"Papervale Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}