A Person of Interest: A Novel

Authors: Choi, Susan
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000
ISBN: 9781101202845, Related ISBNs: 0143115022, 0670018465, 110120284X, 9780143115021, 9780670018468
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 368,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A compelling story of a mad bomber, a suspect scientist, and paranoia in the age of terror from the National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercise and My Education

Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician near retirement age would seem the last person to attract the attention of FBI agents. Yet after a colleague becomes the latest victim of a serial bomber, Lee must endure the undermining power of suspicion and face the ghosts of his past.
With its propulsive drive, vividly realized characters, and profound observations about soul and society, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Susan Choi's third novel is as thrilling as it is lyrical, and confirms her place as one of the most important novelists chronicling the American experience. Intricately plotted and psychologically acute, A Person of Interest exposes the fault lines of paranoia and dread that have fractured American life and asks how far one man must go to escape his regrets.
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