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A review by trin
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
3.0
The courtroom drama aspects of this book were excellent: vivid and captivating and as real as an author can make them without adding the tediousness of reality. You can tell Kim is a lawyer. I struggled more with her depiction of autism and how throughout the book it's only ever discussed as something parents of children with autism need to deal with. I know the mothers are very much the focus here, but the lens of the novel nevertheless sort of erases autistic people as people, rather than a problem to be solved. (See also: the protestors representing the alternate point of view being depicted mostly as crazy and wrong.) I also didn't like that Kim uses as a device to hasten the end of the novel; that's a narrative cheat I particularly hate. I would love to read more legal thrillers from her, but had some major issues with this one.