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 in Fiction, and appeared in numerous publications including Vogue, The New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review, The Asian American Literary Review, and PANK. She lives in northern Virginia with her husband and three sons. MIRACLE CREEK is her first novel.
发表于2025-03-18
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图书标签: 移民 BoTM ANGIEKIM 2019 疾病 家庭 小说
A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng 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.
4.5/5.这本courtroom drama让我想起来了Broadchurch (DTT和Olivia了解一下)。故事里的主要人物都很真实,有让人同情的一面也有让人厌恶的一面,每个人都因为自己的理由说谎、逃避、隐瞒事实,因为没有角色是完美的,反而让人读着读着对每个人或多或少都产生了或理解或同情的感觉。当然,有的人更让人喜欢有的人更让人厌恶,但是并没有那个角色会让我觉得“恨之入骨”或者是完全不在乎。其实是一个悲剧故事,但是结尾却给人带来了一种closure,很好的一个故事。(奶一口会不会被改编成一季的那种电视剧?)
评分最让我惊艳的是作者的写作节奏:一个极有紧凑感的法庭故事,同时又清晰地把这个事件里各个人物的心理、情感,矛盾,和他们之间的联系展现出来。多个人物和叙述角度不但不缭乱,反而是从不同侧面给读者探索这个简单又复杂的主题-为了家人,人们能做到什么地步。移民者的边缘化遭遇,作为病症孩童的父母经历,亲子关系,法律“可操纵”性…总体来说很棒的一本debut。
评分Angie Kim的写作风格真的有点像Celeste Ng,家庭琐事背后探讨生活和人性。扣一星是因为感觉书的有些地方节奏有点慢。
评分3.5 参与新的bookclub读的第一本书,原来故事原型是作者自己本身的经历:年轻时候跟随爸妈送韩国搬来美国;儿子出生之后有些无法解释的病状后来发现是celiac disease但是自己亲身经历过HBOT。人性是复杂的,大家都会撒谎。整体而言节奏不错故事也蛮好,不少有共鸣的地方。
评分4.5/5.这本courtroom drama让我想起来了Broadchurch (DTT和Olivia了解一下)。故事里的主要人物都很真实,有让人同情的一面也有让人厌恶的一面,每个人都因为自己的理由说谎、逃避、隐瞒事实,因为没有角色是完美的,反而让人读着读着对每个人或多或少都产生了或理解或同情的感觉。当然,有的人更让人喜欢有的人更让人厌恶,但是并没有那个角色会让我觉得“恨之入骨”或者是完全不在乎。其实是一个悲剧故事,但是结尾却给人带来了一种closure,很好的一个故事。(奶一口会不会被改编成一季的那种电视剧?)
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