{"product_id":"flashlight-9780374616373","title":"Flashlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of the Year: \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Literary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of \u003ci\u003eTrust Exercise\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn chapters that shift from one member to the next, turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Susan Choi's \u003ci\u003eFlashlight \u003c\/i\u003echases the shockwaves of one family's catastrophe. Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, an ethnic Korean born and raised in Japan, lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to the DPRK. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat really happened to Louisa's father? Why did he take Louisa and her mother to Japan just before he disappeared? And how can we love, or make sense of our lives, when there's so much we can't see?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374616373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2025 pg. 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Susan Choi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276439118005,"sku":"9780374616373","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_441a3f31-27f0-47e2-8a8d-16a0190e990d.jpg?v=1744123258","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/flashlight-9780374616373","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}