New novel · 2025

Flashlight

Novel by Susan Choi

Summary

Flashlight is a 2025 novel by American writer Susan Choi. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States and Jonathan Cape in Great Britain. The circumstance of a Korean father in 1978, presumably washed out to sea while walking near the breakwater on the beach, and the family's grief, opens the novel to a story that "spans decades, and four generations" Flashlight was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

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