Literary Fiction Book Club: Flashlight

Schedule

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm

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Location

241 SE Main St, Lees Summit, MO, United States, Missouri 64063 | Lees Summit, MO

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A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.
One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.
Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne’s illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences.
But now it is just Anne and Louisa, Louisa and Anne, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United, separated, and also repelled by their mutual grief, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa’s father?
Shifting perspectives across time and character and turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Flashlight chases the shock waves of one family’s catastrophe, even as they are swept up in the invisible currents of history.
A monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heartgripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see.
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Join our group discussion of Flashlight on Nov. 6th! No registration is necessary for book clubs; we do request that you purchase the book from KD's, either in store or via our website: https://kdsbooksls.com/book/9780374616373. (Audiobooks and ebooks are also available online through our partnerships with Libro.fm and Bookshop.org.)
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