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	Susan Choi: Shadow Novelist 1/4 \| Asian American Personalities \| GoldSea
		Susan Choi makes a luminous stand at the subversive, secret intersection between mistrust of society and the struggle for emotional survival.
		Susan Choi is easily the lesser-known of the two, but not necessarily the one possessing lesser talent.
		Choi admits to struggling with the starts of her novels and the reader feels her pain while trying to gain traction with AW.
	goldsea.com /Personalities/Choisusan/choisusan.html (884 words)

	village voice > books > American Woman by Susan Choi by Joy Press
		Susan Choi's startlingly good second novel is a fictionalized account of Hearst's stint as a fugitive.
		And she mostly suppresses the urge to mock Juan and his comrades, though there's plenty of tragicomic potential in the SLA story—they were the dregs of '60s radicalism, with a bizarre motto ("Death to the fascist insect that preys on the life of the people") and a knack for fatal screwups.
		Choi's prose radiates intelligence as she traces circles around Jenny and Pauline—near enough that you can feel their warmth, but not so close that you'd ever nail them down.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0333/press.php (830 words)

	Inlibris Bookstore - American Woman : A Novel by Susan Choi
		Choi's examination of 70s radicalism and racism in America throws up fascinating insights into the phenomenon of terrorism as we follow Jenny's increasingly uncertain mental and emotional state while hiding and keeping Pauline and her kidnappers away from the clutches of the law.
		Susan Choi is an important new writer in contemporary fiction.
		Choi has fashioned her own enthralling fiction from the bones of the Hearst story and created a rich reading experience.
	www.inlibris.com /bookstore/main.pl?mode=books&m=1&asin=0060542217 (579 words)

	La Japonaise
		This exodus is Choi's real flight of fancy: the part of the story with no apparent basis in reality, and the occasion for some of her strongest writing.
		Choi doesn't show us the reunion between them, and her restraint is both what keeps American Woman from ever listing into sappiness or cliché, and what maintains an emotional distance between reader and story.
		Choi's reflective voice has its price: This is not a novel that subsumes the reader in a whirligig of emotion and suspense, though at times I wished it would.
	www.thenation.com /docprint.mhtml?i=20031027&s=egan (1711 words)

	Susan Choi's Army
		The would-be revolutionaries in American Woman, Susan Choi's elegant re-imagining of the murky aftermath of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga, are defined by their fractured incompleteness.
		For another young writer, Susan Choi, whose novel ''American Woman'' is based on the life of a Japanese-American woman involved in hiding Patty Hearst and some of her Symbionese Liberation Army captors, that camaraderie is illusory.
		If Gordon and Choi see the movement as kind of substitute for or imitation of family, Susan Braudy, author of ''Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left,'' thinks the two are indivisible.
	www.tart.org /susanchoi (1685 words)

	American Woman by Susan Choi - read excerpt
		Frazer had been so deeply enveloped in his routine and in the music he'd put on to accompany himself he hadn't heard anything until Sorsa was standing there in the doorway...
		Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim.
		Susan Choi was born in Indiana to a Korean Immigrant father and a Russian Jewish mother, and after a brief time in Japan, grew up with her mother in Houston, Texas.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/americanwoman.htm (1216 words)

	Susan Choi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Born in Indiana to a Korean father and a Russian-Jewish mother, Choi was raised in Texas.
		She won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes and Noble by writing the foreign student.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susan_Choi (123 words)

	WAR AND PEACE / Susan Choi revisits violent '70s radicalism through fictionalized Patty Hearst story
		However, Choi is a novelist of such depth and delicacy that she manages to sidestep the myriad dangers of fictionalizing an episode so familiar and so iconic.
		Amid the main narration, Choi traces the genesis of Jenny's political activism back to her father's confinement at Manzanar, the World War II Japanese American internment camp: "Her discovery of what he'd endured was the beginning of her discovery of history and politics, of power and oppression, of brotherhood and racism, and finally, of radicalism."
		Impressively, Choi, who was only a child when Hearst was kidnapped, has authentically and vividly re-created a period from our not-so-distant past while also constructing a satisfying work of fiction that's both personal and expansive.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/07/RV298811.DTL (638 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: American Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Susan Choi's first novel THE FOREIGN STUDENT signaled the arrival of a sensitive new voice unafraid to tackle tender issues of national guilt and immigrant isolation in the Land of Dreams.
		Choi's Jenny makes us re-examine the motivation that perpetrated the radicals of that period and if this book has no other result than to cause us all to re-think the important role of students who questioned the state of the Union, then that raised flag would be sufficient.
		Choi was smart to withhold this information until relatively late in the novel, but even this structural decision can't keep Shimada's psychological trajectory from feeling too tidy.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060542225/readinggroupg-20 (1599 words)

	The Foreign Student : A Novel - Book
		Susan Choi captures the essence of rural America in her odd, thrilling first novel.
		Choi does not hesitate to go into little known aspects of the war such as S. Korean President Syngman Rhee's execution of political prisoners and the Cheju/Yosu rebellions which took 100,000 lives even before the Korean War erupted in June 1950.
		I've read an article where Choi downplays the "authenticity" issue of her novel, and emphasizes that it is fiction.
	book.realbuy.ws /0060929278.html (686 words)

	Bookmouth.com - An Interview with Susan Choi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Susan Choi's short fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals, including the Iowa Review and Epoch magazine, and recently her first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to critical acclaim.
		This interview was originally conducted for a story on MFA writing programs for Playboy.com, and we're pleased to be running it in its entirety here at Bookmouth.com.
		Susan Choi: I got my degree in January of 95.
	www.bookmouth.com /choi.html (1960 words)

	Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art \| Press Releases
		Choi will read from her new novel, American Woman in which she fictionalizes the Patty Hearst kidnapping, basing her protagonist on the real-life Wendy Yoshimura, a young Japanese-American woman who spent the “lost year” with Hearst and her kidnappers.
		Choi’s American Woman, follows 25-year-old Jenny Shimada (loosely based on real-life Wendy Yoshimura) who is on the lam for participating in an anti-war bombing.
		Susan Choi was born in Indiana, grew up in Texas, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
	www.massmoca.org /press_releases/03_2004/03_02_04.html (442 words)

	American Woman by Susan Choi \| PopMatters Book Review
		Choi sticks closely to the historical timeline; almost every action is based on an actual event, and each character has his or her real-life counterpart.
		Choi exerts such control over the proceedings that these characters become her own creations, not just ciphers of the past.
		Choi walks a fine line in rendering Pauline's motives and loyalties unreadable while making her feel real and whole as a character, and this ambiguity is unnerving and exhilarating.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/a/american-woman.shtml (1244 words)

	Paxico Review presents Susan Choi
		Susan Choi entices her audience to feast on the ubiquitous images of popular culture, twisted and remade.
		Unlike her schoolgirl character, Choi's prostitute is represented entirely by still images brought to life through animation.
		Through her work, Choi examines stereotypical images of Asian women as consumable objects who lack their own agency for sexual desire and a cultural context in which young girls seek acceptance by carrying the latest fashions, designer handbags and elaborately packaged candy.
	www.paxicoreview.com /Choi.htm (245 words)

	Barnard College Newscenter
		Much of Choi and Kim's work relates to their parents' experiences during the Korean War, the "Forgotten War" in which perhaps as many as four million Koreans died.
		For writers of Choi and Kim's generation, coming to terms with this terrible past shapes their work; as Kim puts it in a recent poem: "what survives cannot survive unscathed, not fallen/ burr or shoot,/ not fists of spore or snarled taproot."
		Susan Choi is the daughter of a Korean immigrant father whose life history inspired her first novel, The Foreign Student, which won the Asian-American Literary Award and the Steven Turner Award for a First Book of Fiction.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /newnews/news041805.html (360 words)

	Book #3186
		With uncompromising grace and mastery, Susan Choi renders the intimate moments that bring to life a tale of prodigious sweep.
		"Susan Choi in this second novel proves herself a natural-a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.
		Susan Choi was born in Indiana and grew up in Texas.
	www.asianamericanbooks.com /books/3186.htm (446 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE Foreign STUDENT by Susan Choi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The daughter of a Korean immigrant father and a Russian-Jewish mother, Susan Choi was born in Indiana and raised in Texas.
		Her father's stories of life in Korea and of his experiences as a newly arrived immigrant in the American South would later inspire her own stories and her first novel.
		Choi's short fiction has appeared in Epoch, Documents, The Iowa Review, and Writing Away Here: A Korean-American Anthology.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/Foreign_student-author.asp (146 words)

	IU South Bend News: Author Choi Reads Passages From Second Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Author Susan Choi will be reading from her most recent work, “American Woman” at 7:30 p.m.
		Choi, who is originally from South Bend and the daughter of IU South Bend mathematics professor Chang Choi, moved to Texas as a child with her mother.
		Susan graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s of arts degree in literature in 1990.
	www.indiana.edu /~sbocm/oct04/choi.shtml (343 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Foreign Student: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Susan Choi writes this first novel with assurance, weaving Chuck's terrible experiences of war and Katherine's own troubled past into a heartfelt tale of love that demonstrates real talent.
		Thus their coming together seemed like simply a plot contrivance -- as though Choi had two really interesting storylines on different subjects that she was developing separately, but didn't have enough on each to sustain a full novel, so she awkwardly tied them together.
		Choi writes with intelligence and a strong sense of character; I have no doubt that more fine books will come from her.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/006019149X (1260 words)

	American Woman by Susan Choi - read book review
		Choi does an impeccable job at building multi-dimensional characters so much so that I felt deep compassion for Jenny, the intelligent student who protested the Vietnam War.
		She grew up with her father, who was a detainee at the US government camps during WWII because of his Japanese heritage.
		Choi's attention to detail in this story is also flawless.
	mostlyfiction.com /history/choi.htm (981 words)

	The SLA as muse? From a lost, desperate summer came a young writer's inspiration for a story of friendship, rebellion ...
		Choi is the author of the well-received 1998 novel "The Foreign Student," her first, which drew on her father's experience as a Korean immigrant in the American South in the 1950s.
		Choi realized there is no knowing if, in her words, "this book was for real.
		Choi asked herself, "When did that intimacy occur?" You don't necessarily find it in Hearst's memoir, she notes.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/01/DD125102.DTL (1615 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'American Woman' revisits era that bred Hearst kidnapping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In her new novel, Susan Choi imagines the aftermath of the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
		That's the novel's flaw: We watch what these people do, which is interesting enough, but Choi doesn't convey the fevered atmosphere that made their actions palatable, even, in some ways, admirable.
		Choi gives us an intelligently rendered book that reminds us how fascinating Hearst's story — and the times that spawned it — really were.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2003-09-17-choi_x.htm (589 words)

	Bookends: ‘American Woman’ — variation on a theme The title of Susan Choi’s second novel, “American Woman,” ...
		Choi thinks the archetypical American woman more closely resembles Jenny Shimada, the Japanese-American character she based on the real-life Wendy Yoshimura, the "baby-sitter" to Hearst during the "lost year" of 1974 when Hearst’s whereabouts were unknown.
		Choi nicely sums up the power and confusion of this collision in the scenes where Pauline and Jenny (Hearst and Yoshimura) wander the western states in a Thelma-and-Louise-like relationship.
		Throughout the writing, Choi never stopped wondering how significantly different today’s political activists are from those of the Vietnam era.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2003/October/05/style/stories/04style.htm (1400 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - American Woman by Susan Choi
		In American Woman, Susan Choi assembles a fictionalized recasting of the notorious 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
		On this historical framework, Choi drapes a tale pulsing with immediacy, as we follow the aftermath of a violent shootout and life on the run.
		"Enthralling, it is Choi's skill at getting inside the heads of her protagonists that gives the novel its particular, unsettling appeal [and] … grainy psychological depth and texture."
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/american_woman1.asp (677 words)

	Powell's Books - American Woman by Susan Choi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In this fictionalized account of Patty Hearst on the lam with her kidnapper comrades, plot and politics take a backseat to character.
		You may find yourself on the edge of your seat, but Choi's triumph is to lure you inside the skin of these mixed-up, dangerous, and ultimately very sad kids.
		A thought-provoking meditation on themes of race, identity, and class, American Woman explores the psychology of the young radicals, the intensity of their isolated existence, and the paranoia and fear that undermine their ideals.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=8-0060542225-0 (829 words)

	Choi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For his efforts, Doultry wins the favour of the glamorous and wealthy pirate, Madame Lai Choi San.
		From Newsday:[Democratic nominee for Mayor of Camden, New Jersey Jun Choi has] emerged as a role model for young Asians wanting to get into politics and fields invitations to speak at venues throughout the region, including his alma mater, Columbia University.
		Choi, 34, grew up in Edison after his family moved to the U.S. from Seoul, South Korea.
	www.newstrove.com /cgi-bin/search.pl?wn1=30188&title=Choi (824 words)

	The Foreign Student (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This book was highly recommended by Stewart O'Nan when he was in town for a book signing.
		Over all I am glad I read it....it was on its way to be DB d but I hung in there and found that I was rewarded for the effort.
		This is a first novel, if Susan Choi keeps writing, I can see that she could very well produce an excellent book.
	www.jp41.dial.pipex.com /R721.HTML (194 words)

	KQED \| Pacific Time: Susan Choi's "American Woman": Revisiting the Tumult of the '70s
		The story of Patty Hearst and the radical leftist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army, has been given new life in author Susan Choi's critically acclaimed novel, "American Woman." Choi has taken that strange episode in the turbulent mid-'70s and woven it into a fictionalized account.
		But her protagonist, Jenny, isn't based on the newspaper heiress, but instead on a real-life Japanese-American woman, Wendy Yoshimura, who helped Hearst and her kidnappers go underground in 1974.
		For Choi, "American Woman" was also an opportunity to delve into her own identity.
	www.kqed.org /epArchive/R402261830/e (154 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal
		At first, finding any similarities between South Korea and Tennessee in the 1950’s might seem impossible, but Susan Choi manages to do just that in her lyrical first novel, The Foreign Student.
		She and Chang are drawn to each other from their first meeting, discovering an affinity that transcends race and country, that has more to do with wounds and estrangement: “Sometimes she was sure that the distance she felt between them wasn’t difference, but a wariness they both turned toward the world.”
		In Susan Choi’s hands, Chang and Katherine, as they slowly fall in love, find that they—and the Souths of Korea and Tennessee—are not that different after all, both subject to lingering issues of class, family, race, and civil war.
	www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4678 (452 words)

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