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Book SynopsisSusan Choi's first novel,
The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel,
American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel,
A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel,
My Education, received a 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her fifth novel,
Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction and was a US bestseller.
Flashlight began as a short story and won the
Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2021. Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
