Susan Choi has a new novel coming next year, People magazine reports.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Choi’s Flashlight in the spring. The book will be Choi’s first novel for adults since Trust Exercise in 2019.
Choi made her literary debut in 1998 with the novel The Foreign Student and followed it up five years later with American Woman, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She published the novels A Person of Interest and My Education before the release of Trust Exercise, which became a bestseller and won the National Book Award.
Flashlight, Farrar, Straus and Giroux says, tells the story of Louisa, whose father vanishes after the two take a walk on the beach. The novel follows the effects of the man’s disappearance on the members of his family.
“During my childhood my family lived in Japan for a little under a year, and my memories of that time have always been very eerie and dreamlike and hard to connect with the rest of my life,” Choi told People. “The story in Flashlight comes out of that feeling. It’s about a family—not my family, but maybe my alternate-universe family, who are far less lucky than my family was.”
Flashlight is slated for publication on June 3, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
