Susan Choi

2 weeks ago | bookreporter.com | Susan Choi

Readers cannot expect that the simple accident they think they saw happen in the opening passages of Susan Choi’s latest novel will take off into a beautiful and touching mystery that addresses the hot-button topics of racial identity and the need for greater empathy from human to human. In 1978, in a touristy coastal town in Japan, 10-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach at night. Their way is lit only with the flashlight that he carries.

2 weeks ago | foodinstitute.com | Paola Garcia |Susan Choi |Paola García

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2 weeks ago | yalereview.org | Susan Choi

Susan Choi What i always say is that I wasn’t a very good checker. I don’t mean I made mistakes—mistakes being, in fact-checking, failing to catch someone else’s mistakes. I mean that the things I checked weren’t serious or difficult, that generally, the bar was pretty low. This was at Tina Brown’s New Yorker in the mid-1990s, a time when the magazine was trying to raise its own heart rate. The idea was to make headlines, not just cultural history.

3 weeks ago | newinbooks.com | Susan Choi |M J Lee |Lucas Schaefer |James Mondesir

in Books to Read if You Like..., eBook, Literary Fiction Fiction for the Soul: 6 Powerful Literary NovelsBooks don’t need explosions to leave a mark. These six novels dig deep into memory, love, regret, and everything unspoken. With lyrical stories and layered characters, they don’t just tell stories, they invite you to feel them. Prepare for books that will echo long after the final page.

3 weeks ago | charlotteobserver.com | Susan Choi

First things first: Susan Choi's "Flashlight," her first novel since National Book Award-winning " Trust Exercise," is almost nothing like "Trust Exercise." There's no reason it should be, of course, but readers who were introduced to her work by that blockbuster (she had published four novels before it) may expect the terse, tricky writer of "Trust Exercise," in which we think we're reading one sort of book about an inspiring teacher and his students at a performing arts high school, only to...