Genre: Contemporary Adult Fiction
Length: 368 pages
Audiobook Length: 14 hours and 5 minutes
First Published: 2019
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Publisher’s Description
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 rural 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.
Quotes from Miracle Creek
“Good things and bad—every friendship and romance formed, every accident, every illness—resulted from the conspiracy of hundreds of little things, in and of themselves inconsequential.”
“That was the thing about lies: they demanded commitment. Once you lied, you had to stick to your story.”
“In a way, he supposed, it was inevitable for immigrants to become child versions of themselves, stripped of their verbal fluency and, with it, a layer of their competence and maturity.”
About Angie Kim
Angie Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. Before becoming a writer, she was a trial lawyer, and an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She currently lives in Virginia with her husband and three children. Miracle Creek is her first book. Visit the author’s website →
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