Miracle Creek

In rural Miracle Creek, Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo operate the Miracle Submarine, an experimental medical device. It is a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic "dives". The Yoos are Korean immigrants who moved to the United States so their teenage daughter could have a better life.

The chamber holds other people's hopes too. One mother wants her child to be like other kids. A young doctor is trying to cure his infertility and save his marriage.

Then the chamber explodes, and two people die. A young single mother is accused of killing her autistic son, and her murder trial begins.

The book is a literary courtroom thriller, built on the familiar form of the courtroom drama. As testimony piles up, secrets and lies come out from several of the people tied to the Submarine. The author draws on her own background as an immigrant, a lawyer and the mother of a patient who used a real "submarine".

The question driving the trial is how far parents will go to protect their families, and what they will hide to do it.