Paperback: How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies?
My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first.
In a small town in Virginia, a group of strangers come together at a special treatment center, where they enter the Miracle Submarine, an experimental oxygen chamber that may cure a range of conditions - from fertility to autism. Then the chamber explodes and two people die. Who is responsible? Was it the exhausted mother of a patient? The owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protestor, trying to prove that the treatment isn’t safe? An ensuing murder trial uncovers unimaginable secrets and lies.
Drawing on the author’s own experiences - as a former trial lawyer, Korean American immigrant, and mother of a real-life “submarine” patient - Miracle Creek (2019) pieces together the tense atmosphere of a courtroom drama and the complexities of family life.
Miracle Creek is a powerful debut from an unforgettable new voice. It won the 2020 Edgar Award for First Novel, the 2020 ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, the 2020 Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel and the 2020 Pinckley Prize for Debut Novel.
It was voted Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, Today show, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library, Amazon, Hudson Booksellers, BookPage and CrimeReads.
About the author: Angie Kim is the debut author of the international bestseller and Edgar winner Miracle Creek. She moved as a preteen from Seoul, to the suburbs of Baltimore. She attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, then practiced as a trial lawyer.
Her novel also won the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics’ Award, and the Pinckley Prize. A Korean immigrant, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, and one of Variety Magazine’s inaugural “10 Storytellers to Watch,” Kim has written for Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Glamour, and numerous literary journals. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three sons.
Her upcoming novel, Happiness Quotient, is about a 10-year-old boy who is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum. And he goes on a walk with his father, who is his caregiver, and only he returns. The father does not return. So it is about trying to figure out what happened because the son cannot communicate.
Rating: 5/5
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