Help us interview Angie Kim, author of Happiness Falls!
Plus a cornucopia of book newsletters to make 2025 your readingest ever
Let’s presume you are either procrastinating your cooking tasks, overstuffed on turkey already, or hiding out in a corner of someone else’s home, reading your phone as a way to avoid the next political discussion. Or maybe you’re like me, someone who isn’t celebrating the holiday at all. (Whaaaaat? It’s okay. I’m traveling.)
Today is a Thursday, and that means that no matter the holiday, we are still here for you. But today’s newsletter is a little different.
FIRST. We need your questions for Angie Kim, author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek. Angie’s latest book lit up the bestseller lists. Writing for the Boston Globe, Gabino Iglesias raved, “One of the smartest, most multi-layered mysteries of the year. While moving at the speed of a thriller, it’s also an engrossing story that explores what it means to be part of a family with a special-needs child, and discusses the implications of being biracial and navigating two different cultures without ever feeling completely at home in either.”
Angie Kim has been wildly busy with book tours and promo, but she’s making time for a video call with us on December 5 to answer our questions and yours. So let’s do it! Share your questions! This former trial lawyer-turned-suspense author is also a mother of three children with serious medical issues—a subject she has boldly tackled in her fiction. On top of that, she’s one of the nicest authors in the crime fiction domain. What should we ask her?
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PRESENT TENSE is part of an active group of “Bookstackers” who do an amazing job covering books of all kinds. If you want some new book newsletters in your inbox—perhaps as a way to turbocharge your 2025 reading ambitions—then check out this lovely batch.
Enjoy your holiday, stay safe, and don’t touch that scale for a few days at least. You really don’t want to know.
Here comes the BOOKSTACK:
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YAY! Hooray for the Bookstackers! Also, here's my question for Angie Kim:
I'm so impressed with how you managed to write such a thoughtful and nuanced story about disability and disability rights within the framework of suspense. What made you decide to do both of these things, rather than just one of them?
I haven't read this novel yet but plan to asap. In the meantime, I would love to ask the author how she balanced or sought to balance ideas and her desire to incorporate real issues into her story with narrative and the goal to engage, entertain. What was behind her choices as a novelist as she worked on this book?