The Center for Fiction Presents Susan Choi on Flashlight with Sarah Thankam Mathews

The Center is thrilled to welcome acclaimed author Susan Choi (Trust Exercise) to celebrate the highly anticipated release of her new book, Flashlight.

Flashlight traces the disappearance of Serk, a Korean-born man raised in Japan, through the perspectives and memories of his disaster-struck family. The novel reveals the ripple effect of catastrophe and war across time, and the ways in which the past is always present.

Choi will be joined in conversation by novelist Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different, a finalist for the National Book Award. Don’t miss this compelling conversation about the shock of loss and the different ways we tend to it. After the event, Choi will sign books.