Why a Booktrail?
1940s- 2000: An epic story of loss and love
Flashlight
What you need to know before your trail
One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.
This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk’s disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels.
Locations
Reset- North Korea
- C: Pyongyang
- America/USA - Indiana
- D: Strawtown
- E: MA - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Travel Guide
Japan, Korea and the USA
The locations in the book are vague and so are there in a way to explore the challenges of the immigrant experience and the feeling of being “adrift” throughout life.
There are really tough locations to examine – especially in North Korea.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Flashlight
Destination/location: Japan, Korea, USA Author/guide: Susan Choi Departure Time: 1940s- 2000
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