American Woman

Susan Choi . . . proves herself a natural – a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability. I couldn’t put American Woman down, and wanted when I finished it to do nothing but read it again -- Joan Didion Prepare to be held hostage by Susan Choi’s mesmerizing American Woman * Vanity Fair * Riveting . . . Choi has the rare gift of bringing such notorious moments of history back to life and making them altogether new * Vogue * With uncompromising grace and mastery, Susan Choi renders the intimate moments which bring to life a tale of prodigious sweep -- Jhumpa Lahiri Deeply impressive: confident, historically astute, psychologically persuasive . . . beautiful . . . a work of real achievement -- Jennifer Egan In the manner of Don DeLillo’s Libra or Joyce Carol Oates in Black Water . . . [Choi] takes us straight into one of the strangest segments of our ever surreal American dream life * New York Times Book Review * Masterfully plotted . . . American Woman is that rarest of creations, a political novel that gives equal weight to its characters’ inner and outer lives * Salon * Takes a hard-eyed look at American idealism, and yet its imaginative abundance, its fascination with self invention and its portrayal of the landscape as a living, breathing presence provide a quintessentially American sense of possibility * The New Yorker * Historical sweep and startling particular shrewdness . . . Choi has written a fascinating portrait of dangerous fragility * New York Times * Few writers since Graham Greene have brought such tender, insightful, poetic, intelligent, darkly comic writing to the political thriller -- Francisco Goldman