One summer night\, Louisa and her father t ake a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cann ot swim. Later\, Louisa is found on the beach\, soaked to the skin\, barel y alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.
\nLouisa is an on ly 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 re located 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&rsquo\;s illegitimate son\, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences.
\nBut now it is just Anne and Louisa\, Louisa and Anne\, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinar y life in the wake of great loss. United\, separated\, and also repelled b y their mutual grief\, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa&rsquo\;s father?
\nShifting perspectives across time and character and turning back agai n and again to that night by the sea\, \;Flashlight \;chases the s hock waves of one family&rsquo\;s catastrophe\, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history.
\nA monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi\, \;Flashlight \;spans d ecades and continents in a spellbinding\, heartgripping investigation of f amily\, loss\, memory\, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we can not see.
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