"Es el primer d?a del juicio, y all? est?n todos. En Miracle Creek ha llegado la hora de saber qu? fue lo que pas? ese d?a, hace justo un a?o, cuando el tr?gico incendio de aquella c?psula hiperb?rica cambi? la vida de todos para siempre. ¿Es posible que sea verdad que Elizabeth provoc? el incendio en el que muri? su peque?o hijo autista? ¿Ser? condenada a muerte por ello? ¿Qu? estaba haciendo en ese momento Pak, el due?o de 'Miracle Submarine,' el negocio que ofrec?a esta terapia alternativa? Desde que lleg? como inmigrante de Corea, junto a su Young, su mujer, y Mary, su hija adolescente, jur? que nada podr?a hacer fracasar la nueva vida de su familia despu?s de tanto sacrificio. Mientras, entre los testigos, otras madres de hijos autistas conocen mejor que nadie los complejos y contradictorios sentimientos que las invaden a veces, y que confesaban en esas sesiones de terapia hiperb?rica, esperando que algo funcionara. Y est? el pueblo, con sus prejuicios, y sus secretos, y los dem?s testigos que deber?n hablar en el juicio, pero que quiz?s callen para que no estalle su propia vida. ¿Cu?nto vale proteger a los que amamos, hasta d?nde mentir, y hasta d?nde enfrentarse a los propios errores? ¿Tanto como la vida de un inocente?"--Publisher's website
How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies? In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they're part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it's clear the explosion wasn't an accident. A powerful showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. Chapter by chapter, we shift alliances and gather evidence: Was it the careless mother of a patient? Was it the owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn't safe?… (más)
BookshelfMonstrosity: After a deadly incident, a court case becomes the focal point in these legal dramas, both of which mask family tragedies. In both cases, lies are exposed and the responsibilities of parents are questioned.
I found this a disappointing read. I read the book because I read her 2nd novel, Happiness Falls. I liked that book a LOT better. At the heart this story was filled with unlikeable characters living unenviable lives. It was a sad story with everyone lying and ending up with sadness as a result. I stuck with it hoping it would be better. i knew early on who was involved in the crime... ( )
A courtroom drama with lots of twists and turns and so many possibilities of who actually committed the crime that I really didn't know until truth was revealed. Most of the characters grated on my nerves but I guess that's par for the course when you are faced with people in dire circumstances lying to protect themselves or their family.
Suffered in comparison to hyped expectations. As I get older, it's harder to keep track of this many characters in an audio experience. Writing was okay, narrator, Jennifer Lim, was good. Some interesting ideas presented having to do with autism and people with physical and neuro challenges, and the people that love and care for them. ( )
she focused on befriending one family nearby who'd seemed especially nice. But over time, she realized: they weren't nice; they were politely friendly. Young knew the type. Her own mother had belonged to this breed of people who used manners to cover up unfriendliness the way people used perfume to cover up body odor—the worse it was, the more they used.
Even before she said it, she'd wanted to stop her words. But it was as if she were watching a movie already made, unable to stop what was coming.
all the studies showed that rich, successful people who should be the happiest—CEOs, lottery winners, Olympic champions—weren't, in fact, the happiest, and why the poor and disabled weren't necessarily the most depressed: you got used to your life, whatever accomplishments and troubles it happened to hold, and adjusted your expectations accordingly.
"Not nothing. Doing the right thing is not nothing."
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.
"Es el primer d?a del juicio, y all? est?n todos. En Miracle Creek ha llegado la hora de saber qu? fue lo que pas? ese d?a, hace justo un a?o, cuando el tr?gico incendio de aquella c?psula hiperb?rica cambi? la vida de todos para siempre. ¿Es posible que sea verdad que Elizabeth provoc? el incendio en el que muri? su peque?o hijo autista? ¿Ser? condenada a muerte por ello? ¿Qu? estaba haciendo en ese momento Pak, el due?o de 'Miracle Submarine,' el negocio que ofrec?a esta terapia alternativa? Desde que lleg? como inmigrante de Corea, junto a su Young, su mujer, y Mary, su hija adolescente, jur? que nada podr?a hacer fracasar la nueva vida de su familia despu?s de tanto sacrificio. Mientras, entre los testigos, otras madres de hijos autistas conocen mejor que nadie los complejos y contradictorios sentimientos que las invaden a veces, y que confesaban en esas sesiones de terapia hiperb?rica, esperando que algo funcionara. Y est? el pueblo, con sus prejuicios, y sus secretos, y los dem?s testigos que deber?n hablar en el juicio, pero que quiz?s callen para que no estalle su propia vida. ¿Cu?nto vale proteger a los que amamos, hasta d?nde mentir, y hasta d?nde enfrentarse a los propios errores? ¿Tanto como la vida de un inocente?"--Publisher's website
How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies? In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they're part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it's clear the explosion wasn't an accident. A powerful showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. Chapter by chapter, we shift alliances and gather evidence: Was it the careless mother of a patient? Was it the owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn't safe?
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