Miracle Creek

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty & 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, & neither did I, at first . . .

In rural Virginia, Young & 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 & Pak themselves, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment & send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn’t safe?

Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea to the suburbs of Baltimore. She attended Stanford University & 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 & the Wabash Prize for Fiction, & appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review, Asian American Literary Review, & PANK. Kim lives in Northern Virginia with her husband & three sons.
Miracle Creek is Kim's debut novel.