FLASHLIGHT

When a father disappears one night, a fractured family tries to make peace with what happened. But the discordant echo of that night still haunts them. At a patiently revelatory pace, narrator Eunice Wong portrays the Kang family--Louisa, Anne, and Serk. As the story proceeds with multiple shifts in point of view, Wong expertly voices adolescent caprice, 20-something apathy, the barely suppressed rage of motherhood, and the sage maturity of old age. As decades unfold and continents are spanned, the complex, often difficult, characters are portrayed with unexpected empathy. Each remarkable step in this novel illuminates the darkest day of one family and two nations. K.L.L. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2025]