About the book: A ten-year-old girl and her Japanese-Korean father take a stroll along a Japanese beach and disappear; the girl is washed ashore, alive, but her father vanishes. What follows is a story that crosses continents via a family caught in the tides of Cold War history, in a story both gripping and intimate.

About the author: Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Foreign Student (1998), American Woman (2003), and Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for Fiction.