Her household routine is interrupted by a call from her husband, asking her to cover for him at post while their clients (patients) are sealed inside the chamber. Their business, Miracle Submarine, provides a pressurized chamber where the air is filled with 100 percent oxygen. Except her quotidian tasks are rather unusual: she and her husband offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy - also known as HBOT - in their barn, of all places. Young Yoo, the wife of Pak Yoo, goes about her normal routine in Miracle Creek, Virginia, one August evening in 2008.
Kim writes with gut-wrenching detail of life with a child on the spectrum, and is spot-on in capturing the joys and tribulations of having such a child.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. It blends the lives of Korean immigrants, children with cerebral palsy or autism, and their parents with interesting twists: Munchausen by proxy syndrome, sexual assault, and the moral and ethical questions involved as, one by one, characters obstruct justice to serve their own ends or to protect their children. Kim writes with exquisite nuances of the differences between right and wrong, slowly deconstructing each situation and the inner struggles the seven narrators undergo.īut Miracle Creek is more than a courtroom drama. Layer by layer, everyone’s flaws are revealed and events unravelled as the body count rises. The ensuing pages pieces together lives, lies, half-truths, and lies by omission, all recounted by seven unreliable narrators, as the arson/murder trial progresses.
Miracle Creek starts-literally-with a bang as a hyperbaric oxygen chamber filled with autistic children and their parents explodes.
Kim deftly blends these myriad elements, a cast of complex characters, and a fascinating plot. Angie Kim’s debut novel is a genre-breaking combination of courtroom drama, thriller, mystery, and family drama.
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