![]() ![]() Angie Kim gives the reader a supremely masterful unraveling in this tense, psychologically astute, emotionally riveting, suspense-filled literary thriller. Kim does a marvelous job in excavating the emotional toll of this move. One idea Kim explores, under-represented in popular culture, is the cost, psychic and spiritual, of leaving one’s homeland to pursue dreams or a 'better' future in the United States. ![]() It’s dense with story lines but never confusing the reader turns pages eagerly, waiting, wondering what could possibly happen next and how it will all resolve. In multiple narratives, we see events from different points of view as they unfold, or as they are recalled, or through statements and mental asides during testimony. Both a compelling page-turner and an excavation of identity and the desire for connection. Part family drama, part trial drama, part culture war drama-digging into sensitive topics like parenthood, immigration, infertility, and alternative therapy-this novel is all secrets, secrets, secrets. Angie Kim’s Miracle Creek is a thoroughly contemporary take on the courtroom drama, drawing on the author’s own life as a Korean immigrant, former trial lawyer, and mother of a real-life submarine patient. ![]() This novel is a stunner, emotionally packed, with separate characters delivering internal plot twists and turns. From the opening pages of Miracle Creek, Angie Kim creates an intense atmosphere of foreboding and suspense, building swiftly to the event that triggers the rest of her debut novel, unraveling so many lives and lies. ![]()
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