Susan Choi is known for writing novels that mine enormous richness from highly specific settings, whether a high school-level theater program in 2019’s Trust Exercise , a sexually charged campus environment in 2013’s My Education , or a life on the run from the FBI in 2003’s American Woman. But her latest book, Flashlight —out now from Macmillan Publishers—is perhaps her most ambitious effort yet.

In Flashlight , a Korean national named Serk (formerly Seok) leaves the Japan of his youth to build a new life in the United States. What follows is a chronicle of four generations’ worth of his family life—the precision and emotional resonance of Choi’s sentences proving endlessly dazzling.

This week, Vogue spoke to Choi about how winning the National Book Award in 2019 affected (

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