Susan Choi

Books on prize lists

• Flashlight

  Written in English

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  Booker 2025 · Shortlist

  Flashlight

  Flashlight

  Susan Choi · 56 when first published

  Novel · 464 pages · Family, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:One summer night in a Japanese seaside town, ten-year-old Louisa goes for a walk on the sea wall with her father, a Korean émigré; she is found on the sand the next day, and he has vanished, presumed drowned.

• American Woman

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  Pulitzer 2004 · Finalist

  American Woman

  American Woman

  Susan Choi · 34 when first published

  Novel · Politics, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1974 a young Japanese-American radical, in hiding after bombing draft offices, agrees to look after three fugitives, among them a kidnapped newspaper heiress who has joined her captors' revolutionary cell.