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Flashlight

by Susan Choi

Booker Prize · 2025 · Shortlist
MCD/Farrar Straus Girouxliterary-fictionISBN 9780374613723

Award History

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Booker Prize2025Shortlist

About This Book

A coming-of-age novel about two teenage girls in the American Midwest who become obsessed with a boy who disappears, unravelling the mysteries of their own town in the process. Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

About the Author

Susan ChoiAmerican

Susan Choi was born in 1969 in South Bend, Indiana, to a Korean father and Jewish American mother. She studied at Yale University and earned an MFA from Cornell University. She is a professor of writing at Yale and has taught at Princeton, Cornell, and other universities. Read more →

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