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Virtual Mystery Book Club

2021-02-12 19:00:00 2021-02-12 20:00:00 America/New_York Virtual Mystery Book Club Online

Friday, February 12
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2021-02-12 19:00:00 2021-02-12 20:00:00 America/New_York Virtual Mystery Book Club Each month we will discuss a different mystery novel. This month's title will be Miracle Creek by Angie Kim. Online

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Each month we will discuss a different mystery novel. This month's title will be Miracle Creek by Angie Kim.

In the rural Virginia town of Miracle Creek, 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 chamber 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 twisty page-turner and an excavation of identity and the desire for connection, Miracle Creek is a ravishing debut by a major new writer.

You can find Miracle Creek in our catalog here!


The Mystery Book Club meets via Zoom on the 2nd Friday of the month at 7:00pm (unless otherwise noted). Register online with an email address to receive a link. 

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