Flashlight (novel)

Flashlight
2025 book jacket
AuthorSusan Choi
Audio read byEunice Wong
SubjectKorean and Asian American fiction
GenreLiterary realism, Historical fiction
Set in1978 to the 2000s in Japan, Korea, United States
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux, Jonathan Cape
Publication date
June 3, 2025
Publication placeUnited States, Great Britain
Media typePrint, eBook, Audio
Pages464
AwardsShortlisted for Booker Prize
ISBN9780374616373
OCLC1458442226
813.54
LC ClassPS3553.H584 F54 2025
Websiteus.macmillan.com/books/9780374616373/flashlight/
LCCN 2024-53346

Flashlight is a 2025 Susan Choi novel that was originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States and Jonathan Cape in Great Britain. The circumstance of a Korean father in 1978, presumably washed out to sea while walking near the breakwater on the beach, and the family's grief, opens the novel to a story that "spans decades, and four generations" Flashlight was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.