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Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
5.0

This story is a lot like Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng—family secrets, arson, a Korean immigrant family struggling to relate to their Americanized daughter...

Miracle Creek is told from the perspective of whoever is on the witness stand at the murder trial of a woman who allegedly set fire to an oxygenized medical pressure chamber and killed her son along with several other patients. Every time a new witness takes the stand, you learn something new about that day and see the evidence in a new light. It’s a family drama at its heart, not a thriller, but it is masterfully written. I really am in awe of this author.