Flashlight by Susan Choi The World We Saw Burning

The World We Saw Burning is both a striking account of war and a reflection on identity and uprootedness in a time when everything seems on the verge of exploding or disappearing forever

Whether it’s roast goose

For centuries

and with many women's fates sealed by a grizzly execution of strangulation

this is a portrait of a day on the farm

Flashlight by Susan Choi The World We Saw BurningThe astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post war Japan to suburban America and 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 migr, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on