Susan Choi in Conversation
19 May NSW

Susan Choi in Conversation

A conversation with Booker Prize shortlisted author Susan Choi.

Presented by Byron Writers Festival.

Susan Choi’s award winning novel Flashlight tells the astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from Japan to the USA to the North Korean regime.

One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.

The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.

ABOUT SUSAN CHOI
Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Flashlight began as a short story and received the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Susan Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Dates:
TUESDAY 19 MAY @ 6:30PM

Age restrictions: None
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
— Doors 6PM
— Conversation starts 6:30PM followed by book signing at approximately 7:30PM

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TICKET PRICES

GENERAL — $40 (plus booking fee)
General admission unallocated seating.

GENERAL + BOOK BUNDLE — $57.50 (plus booking fee)
Includes one ticket and a copy of the book “Flashlight”. General admission unallocated seating.

BYRON WRITERS FESTIVAL FRIEND — $35 (plus booking fee)
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HOUSEMATE GENERAL — $32 (plus booking fee)
General admission unallocated seating.

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