What happens when an ordinary life is shattered by an extraordinary event? National Book Award winner SUSAN CHOI joins us to discuss her 2025 novel, Flashlight—a haunting story about a father’s disappearance on a walk with his young daughter one summer night and the decades-long aftermath for his family. The moving and intricate story explores how trauma endures. In this discussion with JEFFREY BROWN of the PBS NewsHour, Choi explores the cross-cultural tensions of Korean-Japanese history, the unreliability of memory, and her own “elliptical” process of writing a mystery that spans generations.