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Choi is in thrilling command.” —Dwight Garner, The \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Devastating.” —Ron Charles, The \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ranks among her best work.” —Hamilton Cain, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Dakota Johnson X TeaTime Book Club Pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTrust Exercise\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\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. 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