BookBrowse Reviews Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Fourteen-year-old Eugene shows up bloody and alone at his doorstep the evening his father disappears. His siblings, John and Mia, don't ask him any questions. The thought to do so doesn't cross the mind of Eugene's mother, Hannah, either. Detectives also ignore him, even though he allegedly was the last to see his father. Eugene has a rare genetic condition called Angelman syndrome, which renders him unable to communicate through speech. His family struggled for years to converse with him, and they have almost entirely resigned trying, as have others around him. Told from Mia's perspective, Angie Kim's Happiness Falls is a unique mystery where a missing father is just the beginning of a family really getting to know each other. It demands that readers take a look into their own preconceptions of people in their lives, both those they have interacted with regularly and those they don't ...