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Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
4.0

So...

Pros: master level writing, pacing, drama, etc. ownvoices wrt the immigrant experience. Bitter gorgeous intergenerational issues. Courtroom scenes are gold.

Con: the story centers on disability (especially an autism cure) and, given that is has the multiple viewpoint character format with many views expressed, it is really disturbing to me that it does not contain the viewpoints of the disabled characters. It's clear that the author is very familiar with the feelings of the parents of those characters. However leaving a well formed experience of the disabled children, it lets the parental experience of disability stand as the definitional one. Every other point any character makes is subject to rebuttal by the other characters but the abscence of the disabled child voice leaves the parental feelings unchallenged.

I recognize that I may not be best to determine that and would be very interested to hear from disabled voices on this, especially actuallyautistic adults who may have had parents pushing the way these parents did when they were children.