Friday Afternoon Book Club

Conference Room. Flashlight by Susan Choi (2025) - 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. A monumental new novel from the National Book Award winner Susan Choi, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding, heart-gripping investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see. Multiple copies of this title are available for check out in the library. Our facilitator is Lynne Rogers, English Professor, UConn.