A Person of Interest

Name: A Person of Interest
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Susan Choi
ISBN: 9781433241833

Author: Susan Choi

Narrator: Bernadette Dunn

Unabridged: 16 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/31/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Lee is a math professor at a secondtier university in the Midwest. When a mail bomb goes off in the office of the star computer scientist next door, Lee is slow to realize that students and colleagues have begun to suspect that hes the Brain Bomber, an elusive terrorist whose primary targets appear to be academic hotshots. In the midst of campus tumult over the bombing, a letter arrives from a figure in Lees past, which forces him to revisit events and choices that shaped his failed marriage, his life as a father, and his work as a scholar of middling achievement. While Lee becomes further ensnared in the FBIs attempts to find the bomber, the churnedup regrets from his past bring him to an examination of extremes in his own life as he tries to exonerate himself, face his tormentor from his past, and atone for his failings.

About Susan Choi

Susan Choi is the author of the novels My Education, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and The Foreign Student. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award and the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. With David Remnick, she co-edited Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on March 15, 2008

For the day and a half or so that I spent reading this book last weekend, very little got done in my home. When I finally finished it on Sunday evening, all the subtle indicators of a misspent weekend were evident - dirty dishes in the sink, heaps of dirty laundry, piles of assorted tax-related docu......more

Goodreads review by Marjorie on January 31, 2023

A strong 5 stars. One of my favorite authors. Most highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Ron on November 28, 2013

Susan Choi looks for essential American characters in the most peculiar places. Five years ago, she wrote a novel about Patty Hearst called American Woman that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and now she's back with A Person of Interest, a piercing story about the Unabomber that's one of the......more

Goodreads review by Bruin on May 08, 2019

I very nearly gave up on this book after hearing far too much about two selfish, horrible men. I’m glad I stuck with it. Professor Lee is a not Chinese, but Asian. He escapes his home country alone, his family lost. He starts over in America at age 29, and enters graduate school (mathematics) at the......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on February 02, 2020

I like the story line. The author has a strong story with a good ending. However, I wasn't able to hang onto in the beginning, I can't say why. I decided to continue despite some attempts of giving it up. I wanted to know if one of the characters was still alive that held me to the very end. Somehow,......more