![]() After four years of separation - Pak staying in Korea waiting for his visa - they established a tentative foothold in the American dream with Miracle Submarine, a hyperbaric oxygen-therapy chamber in their backyard barn. ![]() Pak and Young Yoo are immigrants who came to America for their daughter, Mary. The story centers on courtroom intrigue involving a Korean family in Miracle Creek, Va., a small town an hour outside of Washington, D.C. As one character puts it, “We’ve been lying about so many things for a year, deciding for ourselves what’s just or not, what’s relevant or not.” The trial is necessarily corrupted by these lies, even as it starts to uncover them. ![]() Kim is a former trial attorney, and the book is an extraordinary courtroom drama built around a murder trial in which almost everybody involved is lying, for both noble and ignoble reasons. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first.” “My husband asked me to lie,” the book begins. Even the smallest lie can contaminate a trial, and in “Miracle Creek,” Kim shows that there is no such thing as an innocent untruth. In her mesmerizing debut novel, “Miracle Creek,” Angie Kim takes readers into the courtroom for a story of lies and a trial to find the truth. ![]()
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