Synopsis: In rural Miracle Creek, 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,” it's also a repository of hopes and dreams: the dream of a mom that her child can be like other kids; the dream of a young doctor desperate to cure his infertility and save his marriage; the dream of the Yoos themselves, Korean immigrants who have come to the United States so their teenage daughter can have a better life. When the oxygen chamber mysteriously explodes, killing two people, all these dreams shatter with it, and the ensuing murder trial uncovers imaginable secrets and lies.
I was really blown away by this book and it gets 5 stars from me. Initially I was drawn in the hyperbaric oxygen therapy angle of the story and then became completely wrapped up in Angie Kim's beautiful, heartbreaking writing. This is a story about the love of parents for their children and also a legal thriller with some great courtroom tension. I highly recommend it and I hope to read more of this author's work in the future.
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