{"product_id":"flashlight-9780374616373b","title":"Flashlight","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eShortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e“The first major American novel to be published this year.” —Sam Sacks, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking.” —Sam Worley, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Must-Read: The \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Times, New York Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The Chicago Review of Books, Forbes, Literary Hub\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A major world writer . . . 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. 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, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/span\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, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/span\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.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42872781602896,"sku":"9780374616373B","price":14.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374616373-l.jpg?v=1785875518","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/flashlight-9780374616373b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}