Ep. 68 Miracle Creek by Angie Kim -- The Stacks Book Club (Rachel Overvoll)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Miracle Creek is a courtroom drama meets literary fiction book by Angie Kim, it is also today's selection for The Stacks Book Club. To help us break down this story of parental anxiety, belonging, and the right to life, we have author and activist Rachel Overvoll (Finding Feminism). Today we discuss intention vs. impact, the language we use around ability levels, and how we respond to characters who do bad things.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:12.2 | I am your host Tracy Thomas and today is |
| 0:14.5 | another episode of the Stax Book Club where we do a deep dive into one book. This |
| 0:18.9 | week our book is Miracle Creek by Angie Kim. Miracle Creek is a courtroom drama meets literary fiction that looks into a |
| 0:25.2 | murder trial of a fire at a medical facility in northern Virginia. |
| 0:28.8 | To help us break down the many themes and ideas that come up in this book is author of |
| 0:33.0 | finding feminism Rachel Overval. Just so we're all on the same page there are a lot of |
| 0:37.1 | spoilers on today's episode so if you have not read Miracle Creek yet you should |
| 0:40.9 | definitely do that before you listen. |
| 0:43.2 | You can also hear author Angie Kim on the Short Stacks, which is a completely spoiler-free episode. |
| 0:48.4 | There's a link to that and everything else we discuss on this show in today's show notes. |
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