A Person of Interest, by Susan Choi

“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 most remarkable novels to have emerged from our age of terror. American Woman followed the Hearst case closely, but Choi’s success this time has nothing to do with fidelity to the historical record; indeed, the anti-technology assassin, Ted Kaczynski, and the criminal investigation to stop him comprise only a small, late part of this novel. Instead, what makes A Person of Interest so brilliant and unsettling is Choi’s creation of an old man who becomes an object of suspicion.” Read the review at the Washington Post.