Happiness Falls (Good Morning America Book Club)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇó GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK ΓÇó When a father goes missing,his familyΓÇÖs desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another in this thrilling page-turnera deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle Creek. Belletrist Book Club Pick ΓÇó Finalist for the New American Voices Award ΓÇó ΓÇ£This is a story with so many twists and turns I was riveted through the last page.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöJodi Picoult One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Season: The New York Times ΓÇó Los Angeles Times ΓÇó Oprah Quarterly ΓÇó Time ΓÇó St. Louis Post Dispatch ΓÇó Lit Hub ΓÇó Publishers Weekly ΓÇó CrimeReads ΓÇó ABC News ΓÇó USA Today ΓÇ£A brilliantsatisfyingcompassionate mystery that is as much about language and storytelling as it is about a missing father. I loved this book.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöGabrielle Zevinauthor of Tomorrowand Tomorrowand Tomorrow ΓÇ£I fell in love with the fascinatingbrilliant family at the center of this riveting book.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöAnn Napolitanoauthor of Hello Beautiful ΓÇ£We didnΓÇÖt call the police right away.ΓÇ¥ Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Miathe irreverenthyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughterhas an explanation for everythingΓÇöwhich is why she isnΓÇÖt initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene donΓÇÖt return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time MiaΓÇÖs brother runs through the front door bloody and aloneit becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugenewho has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak. What follows is both a ticking-clock investigation into the whereabouts of a father and an emotionally rich portrait of a family whose most personal secrets just may be at the heart of his disappearance. Full of shocking twists and fascinating questions of lovelanguageand human connectionHappiness Falls is a mysterya family dramaand a novel of profound philosophical inquiry. With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning debutMiracle CreekAngie Kim turns the missing-person story into something wholly originalcreating an indelible tale of a family who must go to remarkable lengths to truly understand one another.