American Woman: From the Booker Prize Shortlisted author of Flashlight

Susan Choi

Apr 2026 · Random House

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A young fugitive is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this absorbing novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author

‘I couldn’t put American Woman down’ Joan Didion

‘A fascinating portrait of dangerous fragility’ New York Times

On the run after an act of violence against the American government, twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada is drawn into caring for three younger fugitives. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a San Francisco millionaire, has become a national celebrity for joining her captors’ revolutionary cell.

Yet as Jenny and her charges pursue their destinies from an old farmhouse in upstate New York to California, isolation turns to paranoia and their radical ideals soon begin to fracture.

‘Beautiful... A work of real achievement’ Jennifer Egan

‘Mesmerising’ Vanity Fair

‘Riveting, deeply affecting’ Jhumpa Lahiri

'Amazing...compelling’ Los Angeles Times

A young fugitive is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this absorbing novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author ‘I couldn’t put American Woman down’ Joan Didion ‘A fascinating portrait of dangerous fragility’ New York Times On the run after an act of violence against the American gov...

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Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Flashlight began as a short story and received the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Susan Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, an...

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