We're revisiting an author this month after her recent Booker short lister about family mysteries and haunting memories, looking at Susan Choi's Flashlight. Our subread is an international one, Daniel Kehlmann's imagining of German filmmaker G.W. Pabst's collision with the Nazis in The Director.

A good novel with mixed reviews from NUBClub. Everyone could see that the book was well written and had a relevant theme about fascism and a changing world, but some people thought it was too obtuse and deliberately difficult for their tastes.

Mixed response from NUBClub to this depiction of a deluded and avoidant man in late middle age. We found some interesting ideas in the narrator's blindness to his own condition and the truth about his family, but everyone felt that some of the secondary characters were way too thin and more needed to be done to show just how mistaken the narrator's perspective was.