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Happiness falls : a novel / Angie Kim.

Kim, Angie, 1969- (author.).

Summary:

"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593448205
  • ISBN: 0593448200
  • Physical Description: 387 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: London ; Hogarth, [2023]
Subject: Missing persons > Fiction.
Police > Fiction.
Korean American families > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.

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1001 . ‡aKim, Angie, ‡d1969- ‡eauthor.
24510. ‡aHappiness falls : ‡ba novel / ‡cAngie Kim.
250 . ‡aFirst edition.
264 1. ‡aLondon ; ‡aNew York : ‡bHogarth, ‡c[2023]
300 . ‡a387 pages ; ‡c25 cm
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
520 . ‡a"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the 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.
650 0. ‡aMissing persons ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aPolice ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aKorean American families ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aFamily secrets ‡vFiction.
651 0. ‡aVirginia ‡vFiction.
655 7. ‡aDetective and mystery fiction. ‡2lcgft
655 7. ‡aNovels. ‡2lcgft
901 . ‡a161774 ‡bAUTOGEN ‡c161774 ‡tbiblio

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