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A review by meisqr
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
"Tragedies don't inoculate you against further tragedies, and misfortune doesn't get sprinked out in far proportions; bad things get hurled at you in clumps and batches, unmanageable and messy."
Miracle Creek focuses on the point-of-views of the people that that were somehow, in some way, involved in tbe tragic accident that caused the death of a mother and a child.
At its core, Miracle Creek was quite hard to read. It was hard because of its realistic qualities; it made you forget that this was fiction. Each character's problems were open and bare, for every reader to see. Their flaws and their challenges, leading up to the tragedy, and even the trauma that they kept with them after it. They all suffered in one way or another, and it was hard to read a piece of fiction that was so real in its portrayal of characters. It showed the difficulties the parents go through, how a teenager coped with being forced into a new life, and how every decision and lie snowballed into the tragedy.
The hardest parts to read would be those of the mothers' perspectives, because it lets you in their mind. How they are just as human as we all are, that they too have doubts in their mind, but it doesn't ever mean that they hadn't loved us at all. That, although they loved their children and had wished them to have been born normal, or remained the way they were, they still loved them to their very core.
I cannot comment much on the autism aspect of the book as I am not that knowledgeable in that area, but I had hoped that there was more to the kids than what was portrayed. I wish there was a better way to tackle the "autism has to be cured" ideology kind of thing.
Miracle Creek focuses on the point-of-views of the people that that were somehow, in some way, involved in tbe tragic accident that caused the death of a mother and a child.
At its core, Miracle Creek was quite hard to read. It was hard because of its realistic qualities; it made you forget that this was fiction. Each character's problems were open and bare, for every reader to see. Their flaws and their challenges, leading up to the tragedy, and even the trauma that they kept with them after it. They all suffered in one way or another, and it was hard to read a piece of fiction that was so real in its portrayal of characters. It showed the difficulties the parents go through, how a teenager coped with being forced into a new life, and how every decision and lie snowballed into the tragedy.
The hardest parts to read would be those of the mothers' perspectives, because it lets you in their mind. How they are just as human as we all are, that they too have doubts in their mind, but it doesn't ever mean that they hadn't loved us at all. That, although they loved their children and had wished them to have been born normal, or remained the way they were, they still loved them to their very core.
I cannot comment much on the autism aspect of the book as I am not that knowledgeable in that area, but I had hoped that there was more to the kids than what was portrayed. I wish there was a better way to tackle the "autism has to be cured" ideology kind of thing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Moderate: Infertility