Angie Kim
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Miracle Creek
50 editions
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2019
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Happiness Falls
15 editions
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2023
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A Planned Occasion
2 editions
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2023
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I absolutely loved Demolition and Hostel, the two stories from Highway Thirteen that have been published in the New Yorker, and I cannot wait to read the other stories. I thought the story-within-a-story-within-a-story aspect of Hostel was astounding
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I was just on a panel with Nancy at a book festival, and she explained that she used the missing-person element as a metaphor for the way that so many women "disappear" when they become mothers, which is something I've definitely felt. (And the re-em
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An astonishing novel. The premise is fantastic--a young mother with perfect photographic memory who goes missing, and when she returns, has no memory of what happened, and thus (with the aid of a psychiatrist) must solve the mystery of her own missin ...more | |
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I absolutely loved Demolition and Hostel, the two stories from Highway Thirteen that have been published in the New Yorker, and I cannot wait to read the other stories. I thought the story-within-a-story-within-a-story aspect of Hostel was astounding ...more | |
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Seemingly simple (and written in correspondingly spare prose that made the story extremely accessible) but astonishingly complex and layered. An allegory about totalitarianism and decay of memory and society--and how we respond to that. I'm still not ...more | |
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Mesmerizing. Haunting. I loved the lush, lyrical language in the beginning stories, but I think it was the story of the twin sisters that pulled me all the way in. The house became real over time, and what I loved most was the variety of voices and g ...more | |
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LOVE this book so much! What a wonderful review. Totally agree about Leo! And the slice of Dirty Dancing haha!
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This novel feels very much like standalone stories in the beginning, but as we get to know each character and as the powwow nears, their stories become more and more tightly woven. By the end of the novel, it really had a thriller feel for me, with s ...more | |
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I LOVE Téa Obreht's writing, and as much as I adore and admire The Tiger's Wife, The Morningside may be my new favorite. I served as her interlocutor at Politics & Prose the day I finished reading this book, so that may explain why I feel that way (i ...more | |
“In a way, he supposed, it was inevitable for immigrants to become child versions of themselves, stripped of their verbal fluency and, with it, a layer of their competence and maturity.”
― Miracle Creek
― Miracle Creek
“But that was the way life worked. Every human being was the result of a million different factors mixing together -- one of a million sperm arriving at the egg at exactly a certain time; even a millisecond off, and another entirely different person would result. Good things and bad--every friendship and romance formed, every accident, every illness--resulted from the conspiracy of hundreds of little things, in and of themselves inconsequential.”
― Miracle Creek
― Miracle Creek
“That was the thing about lies: they demanded commitment. Once you lied, you had to stick to your story.”
― Miracle Creek
― Miracle Creek
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