PRINCETON, N.J. - TelAve -- People & Stories / Gente y Cuentos invites the community to welcome spring - and to widen the circle - at its benefit event featuring award-winning novelist Susan Choi on Saturday, March 7 at 2:00 p.m.

Notable Words: In the Afternoon Light with Susan Choi will take place in the Mackay Lounge at Princeton Theological Seminary and will be followed by light refreshments.

Scheduled for early March, the event offers an opportunity to gather after the winter months for an afternoon centered on literature and thoughtful engagement. Designed as an intimate author event, the program provides attendees the chance to hear directly from Susan Choi about her most recent Booker Prize–shortlisted novel, Flashlight, as well as her other novels and writing, in a setting that values attention, conversation, and shared experience.

"Susan Choi's work invites readers to look closely at relationships, at power, and at how people come to understand themselves and one another," said Debra Lampert-Rudman, Executive Director of People & Stories. "Following the winter we've experienced, spring feels like the right moment for that kind of renewed attention. This event reflects our mission of creating space for people to gather, listen, and engage through literature."

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Susan Choi is the author of six novels. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. American Woman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and A Person of Interest was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010, she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award. Her novel My Education received a Lambda Literary Award. Trust Exercise won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction and became a U.S. bestseller. Her most recent novel, Flashlight, was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and will be available—along with selected earlier titles—for purchase and signing by independent Princeton bookseller Labyrinth Books at the event.

Tickets for the event begin at $125, with additional ticket options available for those attending with friends or small groups, as well as options that include an autographed copy of Flashlight. Sponsorships are also available. Attendees may choose multi-ticket options as a way to widen the circle, inviting others to take part in the afternoon.

Proceeds from the event support People & Stories' year-round programs "without walls" held in Spanish and English bringing facilitated literary readings and discussion to a wide range of venues including social service centers, prisons, museums, libraries, senior, new immigrant, and assisted living centers, and other communities with limited access to cultural and literary opportunities.

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Tickets, sponsorships, and additional information are available at www.peopleandstories.org/susanchoi or by emailing info@peopleandstories.org

About Susan Choi

Susan Choi is the author of six novels. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. American Woman was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, and A Person of Interest was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010, she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received the 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction and was a U.S. bestseller.

Her most recent novel, Flashlight, was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. The work began as a short story published in The New Yorker in 2020 and won the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Choi serves as a trustee of PEN America and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

About People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos

People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos (P&S/GyC)  has been dedicated to opening doors to literature for new audiences for over 54 years. Through oral readings and engaging discussions of enduring short stories, P&S/GyC invites its program participants to find fresh understandings of themselves, of others, and of the world. www.peopleandstories.org