Flashlight is an absolutely engrossing novel that delves deeply into identity, family, nationality, illness, and suffering. It is hard to describe the totality of the characters, since their essence is so shaped by what is done to them, as well as their perception of what they have seen. When a displaced family is left adrift by a disappearance, their precarious and distrustful lives unravel in troubling and unexpected directions. This is a difficult book to summarize since it jumps in time, location and characters. There are mysteries solved, and threads that meander away. Susan Choi writing is as intricate as the story, but also wry and unsettling.
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