A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: TimeThe Washington Post, and Literary Hub

A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.

One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He’s carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.

Susan Choi is the author of Trust Exercise, which received the National Book Award for fiction, as well as the novels The Foreign StudentAmerican WomanA Person of Interest, and My Education. She is a recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary award, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Events

June 1, 2025
Baltimore, MD
Greedy Reads’ Lost Weekend Festival in conversation with Rachel Khong
June 3, 2025, 7:00pm ET
Brooklyn, NY
Center for Fiction in conversation with Sarah Thankam Mathews
June 5, 2025, 7:00pm PT
San Francisco, CA
The Booksmith in conversation with R.O. Kwon
June 6, 2025, 7:00pm PT
Los Angeles, CA
Skylight Books in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
June 7, 2025, 7:30pm PT
Seattle, WA
Town Hall Seattle in conversation with John Whittier Treat, book sales through Third Place Books.
June 9, 2025, 6:00pm ET
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge Public Library, hosted by Harvard Book Store in conversation with Gish Jen

Contact

Publicity Requests:
Sarita Varma
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
sarita.varma@fsgbooks.com

Speaking Engagements:
Steven Barclay Agency
1-707-773-0654
steven@barclayagency.com

Literary Rights:
Jin Auh
The Wylie Agency
jauh@wylieagency.com