Reflexive Hostility
Blake Morrison: Susan Choi’s ‘Flashlight’, 9 October 2025
“... end of the session she sneaks off with it.The upheaval caused by having to spend a year in Japan (Susan Choi also lived there for a period as a child) may be a factor in her recalcitrance. As the daughter of a white American mother and an Asian father, she’s used to feeling different, but in Japan it’s a new sort of difference: she’s stared at as a ... ”
