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2024-12-23
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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.
2019.5 非常好看,一口气。
评分很沉重现实感人的一个悲剧故事,多人视角,情节编排精妙扣人心弦,作者由于亲身经历从而将人物心理感受以及各种社会现象刻画得非常深刻,很优秀的debut小说;空巢爸爸的孤独辛酸,新移民的生存与文化困境,特殊需求儿童的家长们的矛盾心境,不育夫妻的渐行渐远,性暴行的伤害与偏见,爱、欺骗与牺牲,诸多元素精彩地编织在故事中。
评分真正成熟的处女作!
评分2019.5 非常好看,一口气。
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。
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