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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Flashlight
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Choi, Susan
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 450 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: One 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. In chapters that shift from one member to the next, turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Susan Choi's Flashlight chases 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. What 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?
  note: Susan Choi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Family crises
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Family secrets
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Estranged families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Life change events
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Missing persons
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Korean Americans
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Coming of Age
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Family Life
  classification: PS3553.H584 F54 2025
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9780374616373
  identifier: 037461637X
  identifier: 9781787335127
  identifier: 1787335127
  identifier: 9781787335134
  identifier: 1787335135
  identifier: 9781529932522
  identifier: 2024053346
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241115
    record change date: 20251003182402.9
    record identifier: in00005664515