Dubai Bibliophiles: Susan Choi, Flashlight

A monumental 2025 novel from the National Book Award winner, Flashlight spans decades and continents in a spellbinding investigation of family, loss, memory, and the ways in which we are shaped by what we cannot see. Powerful stuff: “domestically sprawling, geopolitically bold” said the Guardian. “Choi is one of contemporary literature’s great demolition artists, and her emotional foundations hold. She can build as well as she detonates.”