Flashlight — Susan Choi

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026A moment is all it takes to shatter a family The echoes last a lifetime Ferociously smart and full of surprises Eleanor Catton Engrossing Full of brains and mystery TelegraphOne evening ten year old Louisa and her father Serk take a walk out on the breakwater They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town Hours later Louisa wakes on the beach soaked to the skin Her father is missing presumably drowned This sudden event shatters their small family As Louisa and her American mother return to the US Serk s disappearance reverberates across time and space and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels A Book of the Year for the Guardian Time New Yorker Esquire Vanity Fair FT and Barack Obama Big bold and surprising Guardian Illuminates the buried secrets of the human heart Oprah Daily Gorgeous Almost impossibly heartbreaking New York Magazine It will make your head spin in the best way Dakota Johnson Endlessly dazzling VogueREADERS LOVE FLASHLIGHT Compelling fascinating original Read this book Five stars Heartbreaking A beautifully written story of a family across decades I loved it the best read in years Glorious Absolutely brilliant Tanıtım Bülteninden