Angie Kim
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Happiness Falls
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2023
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Miracle Creek
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2019
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A Planned Occasion
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2023
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UPDATE: For DC readers - please join me at Politics & Prose (Conn Ave) on Dec 2 at 6 pm for the launch party, with a conversation/reading with Christina Kovac at 7 pm! Hope to see you there! I LOVE this book so much! The missing-person mystery—Josh, a ...more |
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| "The story of my people isn't being told, or it's being told wrong. No neurotypical person can tell this story. No lovely actress, no smart but normal writer can tell you what this is like. My scar is a hieroglyph telling me to tell the story myself. ...more | |
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| An extraordinary, stunning collection of powerful, gorgeous stories about Korean Americans struggling to make sense of their place in their families, in this country, and in this world. Is it because I'm a Korean immigrant and a former pianist obsess ...more | |
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BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST!!!! WOOHOO!!!!! Update: I'll be in convo with Susan (and Katie Kitamura for her mind-blowing Audition) at the National Book Festival on Sept 6 at 12:30. Come by if you're in DC! My blurb: In a brilliant feat of storytelling, both ...more |
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UPDATE: For DC readers - please join me at Politics & Prose (Conn Ave) on Dec 2 at 6 pm for the launch party, with a conversation/reading with Christina Kovac at 7 pm! Hope to see you there! I LOVE this book so much! The missing-person mystery—Josh, a ...more |
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UPDATE FOR DC AREA FOLKS: I'll be in conversation with Bruce Holsinger at East City Books (Capitol Hill) on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 7 PM. Please join us! What a fascinating, thought-provoking novel. Bruce Holsinger is a master at combining revelat ...more |
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DC readers--if you happen to see this in time and are in town this weekend, please come to P&P Union Market on Sat, May 3, 2025, at 6 PM, where I'll be in conversation with Amity Gaige about this beautiful book! See you there, I hope! HEARTWOOD is my ...more |
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| I'm astounded by Lou Berney's writing every time I read a new work of his, and this novel is no exception. It's a family saga like no other, like a collection of the most lovable but also the most fucked up people in one family ever. (I'm exaggeratin ...more | |
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Hi Edward! I love libraries AND I love book clubs, so yes, I'd be happy to. My email (also available on my website) is angiekimbooks@gmail.com. Please send a zoom link and I'll see you then!
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| This is an older book I picked up because I loved his upcoming book (The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne). A few reasons why I loved it: 1) I love speculative fiction, esp ones that have anything to do with the multiverse; 2) I'm very into quirky ...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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