Miracle Creek: A Novel

Angie Kim

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr 16, 2019 - Fiction - 368 pages

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

The “gripping... page-turner” (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng

How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies?

In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they’re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it’s clear the explosion wasn’t an accident.

A powerful showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. Chapter by chapter, we shift alliances and gather evidence: Was it the careless mother of a patient? Was it the owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn’t safe?

“A stunning debut about parents, children and the unwavering hope of a better life, even when all hope seems lost" (Washington Post), Miracle Creek uncovers the worst prejudice and best intentions, tense rivalries and the challenges of parenting a child with special needs. It’s “a quick-paced murder mystery that plumbs the power and perils of community” (O Magazine) as it carefully pieces together the tense atmosphere of a courtroom drama and the complexities of life as an immigrant family. Drawing on the author’s own experiences as a Korean-American, former trial lawyer, and mother of a “miracle submarine” patient, this is a novel steeped in suspense and igniting discussion.

Recommended by Erin Morgenstern, Jean Kwok, Jennifer Weiner, Scott Turow, Laura Lippman, and more--Miracle Creek is a brave, moving debut from an unforgettable new voice.

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User Review  - Maydacat - LibraryThing

This book deserves five stars if for no other reason than the author kept all the minute details about who did what and who said what, straight. It must have been a writing nightmare! With so many ...

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User Review  - Jinjer - LibraryThing

Ha! I had the person who started the fire pegged right from the start! Even so, the book was full of twists and turns, lies and deceit. I loved every single page and obviously could not put it down ...

Contents

• Section 1: 5
• Section 2: 13
• Section 3: 20
• Section 4: 32
• Section 5: 40
• Section 6: 48
• Section 7: 54
• Section 8: 64
• Section 9: 72
• Section 10: 83
• Section 11: 96
• Section 12: 107
• Section 13: 121
• Section 14: 134
• Section 15: 150
• Section 16: 153
• Section 17: 161
• Section 18: 171
• Section 19: 185
• Section 20: 194
• Section 21: 206
• Section 22: 214
• Section 23: 227
• Section 24: 230
• Section 25: 236
• Section 26: 248
• Section 27: 258
• Section 28: 268
• Section 29: 272
• Section 30: 285
• Section 31: 296
• Section 32: 305
• Section 33: 316
• Section 34: 323
• Section 35: 330
• Section 36: 345

About the author

Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. She attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, then practiced as a trial lawyer at Williams & Connolly. Her stories have won the Glamour Essay Contest and the Wabash Prize in Fiction, and appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review, The Asian American Literary Review, and PANK. Kim lives in northern Virginia with her husband and three sons. Miracle Creek is her debut novel.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Miracle Creek: A Novel
• Author: Angie Kim
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019
• ISBN: 0374717982, 9780374717988
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Asian American; Fiction / Disabilities & Special Needs; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Thrillers / Legal