NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • When a father goes missing
his family’s desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one
another in this thrilling page-turner a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the
award-winning author of Miracle Creek. OPRAH DAILY’S #1 NOVEL OF THE YEAR • ONE OF PEOPLE’S TEN
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BOOK OF THE YEARBelletrist Book Club Pick • Finalist for the New American Voices Award • This
is a story with so many twists and turns I was riveted through the last page.”—Jodi PicoultA
brilliant satisfying compassionate mystery that is as much about language and storytelling as
it is about a missing father. I loved this book.”—Gabrielle Zevin author of Tomorrow and
Tomorrow and TomorrowI fell in love with the fascinating brilliant family at the center of
this riveting book.”—Ann Napolitano author of Hello BeautifulWe didn’t call the police right
away.” 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.Mia the irreverent hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter has an explanation for
everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother
Eugene don’t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped
for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia’s brother runs through the front door bloody and
alone it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only
witness is Eugene who 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 love language and
human connection Happiness Falls is a mystery a family drama and a novel of profound
philosophical inquiry. With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning
debut Miracle Creek Angie Kim turns the missing-person story into something wholly original
creating an indelible tale of a family who must go to remarkable lengths to truly understand
one another.
