Flashlight: a novel

Book Cover
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for Flashlight
Author:
Choi, Susan, 1969-
Language:
English
Choose a Format
Checked Out
20 copies, 74 people are on the wait list.

Also in This Series

More Details

ISBN:
9780374616373

Published Reviews

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Staff View

Grouping Information

Grouped Work ID8080cefc-f315-330f-c840-f4fa46198df8
Grouping Titleflashlight
Grouping Authorsusan choi
Grouping Categorybook
Grouping LanguageEnglish (eng)
Last Grouping Update2025-08-05 05:08:37AM
Last Indexed2025-08-05 05:15:01AM

Solr Fields

accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Choi, Susan, 1969-
author_display
Choi, Susan
collection_catalog
Adult Fiction
detailed_location_catalog
East Regional - Adult Fiction
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
Leesville Community - Adult Fiction
Middlecreek Community - Adult Fiction
North Regional - Adult Fiction
Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction
display_description
"A thrilling, globe-spanning novel on memory, identity, and what it means to be in a family (and to lose one), from the award-winning author of Trust Exercise. One 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. Louisa 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. But 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? Shifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Flashlight chases the shock waves of one family's catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history.
format_catalog
Book
format_category_catalog
Books
id
8080cefc-f315-330f-c840-f4fa46198df8
isbn
9780374616373
last_indexed
2025-08-05T09:15:01.659Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
local_callnumber_catalog
CHOI
local_time_since_added_catalog
Six Months
Year
owning_library_catalog
Wake County Public Libraries
owning_location_catalog
East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Leesville Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
primary_isbn
9780374616373
publishDate
2025
publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Domestic fiction
Families -- Fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction
title_display
Flashlight : a novel
title_full
Flashlight : a novel / Susan Choi
title_short
Flashlight
title_sub
a novel
topic_facet
Families
Fathers and daughters
Loss (Psychology)
Missing persons

Solr Details Tables

item_details

Bib IdItem IdShelf LocationCall NumFormatFormat CategoryNum CopiesIs Order ItemIs eContenteContent SourceeContent URLDetailed StatusLast CheckinLocation
ils:8013248797546Southeast Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseTransit RequestSER
ils:8013248797548Middlecreek Community - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outMID
ils:8013248797544Oberlin Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outOBR
ils:8013248797549North Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outNOR
ils:8013248797535Oberlin Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outOBR
ils:8013248797543Northeast Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outNER
ils:8013248797532Middlecreek Community - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outMID
ils:8013248797539Oberlin Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outOBR
ils:8013248797550Oberlin Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outOBR
ils:8013248797531Southeast Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outSER
ils:8013248797533Oberlin Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outOBR
ils:8013248797536Southeast Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outSER
ils:8013248797547Middlecreek Community - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseItem being heldMID
ils:8013248797537East Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outERL
ils:8013248797542East Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outERL
ils:8013248797541Oberlin Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseItem being heldOBR
ils:8013248797538Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outEVA
ils:8013248797545Leesville Community - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outLEE
ils:8013248797540North Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outNOR
ils:8013248797534North Regional - Adult FictionCHOI1falsefalseChecked outNOR

record_details

Bib IdFormatFormat CategoryEditionLanguagePublisherPublication DatePhysical DescriptionAbridged
ils:801324BookBooksFirst editionEnglishFarrar, Straus and Giroux2025450 pages ; 24 cm

scoping_details_catalog

Bib IdItem IdGrouped StatusStatusLocally OwnedAvailableHoldableBookableIn Library Use OnlyLibrary OwnedIs Home Pick Up OnlyHoldable PTypesBookable PTypesHome Pick Up PTypesLocal Url
ils:8013248797546Checked OutTransit Requestfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797548Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797544Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797549Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797535Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797543Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797532Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797539Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797550Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797531Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797533Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797536Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797547Checked OutItem being heldfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797537Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797542Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797541Checked OutItem being heldfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797538Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797545Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797540Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse
ils:8013248797534Checked outChecked outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetruefalse

Borrower Reviews