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, ...

Ten-year-old Louisa is walking on a beach on the Japanese coast at night with her father, a cantankerous college instructor named Serk. It’s 1978. They’ve left their sandals near a staircase leading ...

Susan Choi M.F.A. ’95, a graduate of Cornell’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, was recently awarded the National Book Award for her fiction novel Trust Exercise. This prestigious ...

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