Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim| Published April 16th 2019 by Sarah Crichton Books  |  357 Pages | Goodreads

✅ REVIEW

“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 . . .”

An interesting, captivating, and carefully-crafted novel. The book follows a trial in the town of Miracle Creek after an explosion kills two people.

The story is narrated from different points of view including the Yoos, a Korean family who operated the experimental oxygen treatment chamber that exploded and caused the death of two people. The novel tackled many elements such as the immigration experience, family, parenthood, and marriage. An excellent debut novel.

Overall, I enjoyed it and recommend it to readers of thrillers, mysteries, and contemporary fiction.

✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION

“A literary courtroom drama about a Korean immigrant family and a young, single mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son

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 the small town of Miracle Creek, Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine—a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives” with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos’ small community.

Who or what caused the explosion? Was it the mother of one of the patients, who claimed to be sick that day but was smoking down by the creek? Or was it Young and Pak themselves, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? The ensuing trial uncovers unimaginable secrets from that night—trysts in the woods, mysterious notes, child-abuse charges—as well as tense rivalries and alliances among a group of people driven to extraordinary degrees of desperation and sacrifice.

✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT

Loan from Miami-Dade’s Library Overdrive, audiobook