Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
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Miracle Creek
A Novel

Author: Angie Kim

Narrator: Jennifer Lim

Unabridged: 14 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2019


Synopsis

This program includes a bonus interview with the author and original music composed and performed by Steve Draughn.

A thrilling debut about how far we’ll go to protect our families—and our deepest secrets.

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.

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. Both a compelling page-turner and an excavation of identity and the desire for connection, Miracle Creek is a brilliant, empathetic debut from an exciting new voice.

About Angie Kim

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 for Fiction, and appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review, Asian American Literary Review, and PANK. Kim lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three sons.Miracle Creek is Kim's debut novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on April 17, 2019

Or perhaps the newspapers were right. Perhaps Elizabeth had been desperate to get rid of her son, and now that he was dead, she finally had a measure of peace. Perhaps she had been a monster all along. I had to take some time away to really process this book. It wasn't easy. Miracle Creek absolut......more

Goodreads review by Yun on March 23, 2025

Miracle Creek is so raw and visceral in its tackling of people, their emotions, and all their flaws. It was hard to look away from this story, but at times, even harder to continue. A small group of people are seeking an experimental treatment when the unthinkable happens—an explosion kills two and i......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on October 11, 2022

"But that was the way life worked. Every human being was the result of a million different factors mixing together... 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......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on April 30, 2020

5 billion heart wrenching, epic, poignant stars! How far you go to protect your children’s lives?Can you dedicate your whole life for their well being? Is it fair to push them so hard for their treatment? There are so many questions make you rethink your principles of your life as you read this book......more


Quotes

"This impressive debut is enhanced by the talented [Jennifer] Lim." -AudioFile Magazine Editors' Pick


Awards

  • Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee
  • Amazon.com Best Books of the Year
  • Anthony Awards - Nominee
  • Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year
  • Thriller Awards - Nominee
  • Library Journal Best Books of the Year
  • Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner
  • Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
  • Thriller Awards - Winner