Angie Kim's debut novel, Miracle Creek, was an international bestselling, Edgar Award winning best book of the year. Her latest novel, Happiness Falls, is a Good Morning America book club pick all about when a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another.

A key character in this story is mute and it asks questions about intelligence and how we perceive it as a society, something Angie is deeply passionate about.

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