The HBOT facility was started by Pak and Young Yoo. Kim explores them all in depth, creating so many intimate portraits that all come together to form a bigger picture. The third person narration moves through each of their perspectives, filling in the night in question, piece by piece.
Having a special-needs child didn’t just change you it transmuted you, transported you to a parallel world with an altered gravitational axis.īut there are many other characters in this book and they all play an important role. The more we learn, the less implausible it sounds. Whether it was enough for her to murder her son, though, is the real question. Elizabeth's son was on the autism spectrum and, as we soon see, the pressure of looking after him was pushing her to the edge.
It's a kind of oxygen treatment said to improve everything from male infertility to autism, and the author has personal experience with it. On the night in question, she dropped her son off for his HBOT treatment and purportedly left to drink wine and smoke cigarettes nearby- the same cigarettes responsible for the blast that killed her son while she was absent. Elizabeth, the single mother of one of the victims, is on trial for murder. It's now a year since the night that took two lives and injured several others. The trial and the mystery are the compelling backdrop here, but this book explores so many things that it's hard to know where to begin describing it.
It's a fantastic, utterly thrilling courtroom drama it's a mystery, perhaps a murder mystery and alongside these things, it's also a powerful character study that examines immigration, parenthood, grief, disability and caregiving. Miracle Creek absolutely ripped my heart out. I had to take some time away to really process this book. Perhaps she had been a monster all along. Perhaps Elizabeth had been desperate to get rid of her son, and now that he was dead, she finally had a measure of peace.
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