Happiness Falls: A GMA Book Club Pick by Angie Kim

Happiness Falls: A GMA Book Club Pick by Angie Kim

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another in this thrilling page-turner, a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle Creek.

OPRAH DAILY'S #1 NOVEL OF THE YEAR - ONE OF PEOPLE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A WASHINGTON POST, BOOKPAGE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NEW YORK POST, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, BOOK RIOT, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, REAL SIMPLE, CRIMEREADS, AND SHE READS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Belletrist Book Club Pick - Finalist for the New American Voices Award - Finalist for the Virginia Literary Award - This is a story with so many twists and turns I was riveted through the last page.--Jodi Picoult

A brilliant, satisfying, compassionate mystery that is as much about language and storytelling as it is about a missing father. I loved this book.--Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I fell in love with the fascinating, brilliant family at the center of this riveting book.--Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful

We didn't call the police right away. Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing.

Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia's brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.

What follows is both a ticking-clock investigation into the whereabouts of a father and an emotionally rich portrait of a family whose most personal secrets just may be at the heart of his disappearance. Full of shocking twists and fascinating questions of love, language, and human connection, Happiness Falls is a mystery, a family drama, and a novel of profound philosophical inquiry. With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning debut, Miracle Creek, Angie Kim turns the missing-person story into something wholly original, creating an indelible tale of a family who must go to remarkable lengths to truly understand one another.

Angie Kim relocated to the Baltimore suburbs as a adolescent from Seoul, South Korea. She went to Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, before working at Williams & Connolly as a trial lawyer. Her tales have appeared in a variety of journals, including The New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Southern Review, Sycamore Review, Asian American Literary Review, and PANK, and have won the Glamour Essay Contest and the Wabash Award for Fiction. Kim, her husband, and their three sons live in Northern Virginia. Kim's debut novel is Miracle Creek.

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ISBN 13	9780593448205
ISBN 10	0593448200
Title	Happiness Falls: A GMA Book Club Pick
Author	Angie Kim
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hogarth
Year published	2023-08-29
Number of pages	400
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.