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When her father fails to come home from a walk in the park with her fifteen-year-old brother Eugene, who has Angelman syndrome and cannot speak, Mia, twenty, tries to work out what Eugene saw.
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Miracle Creek
In a small Virginia town, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber run by a Korean immigrant family explodes during a session, killing two people, and a year later the trial of a mother accused of setting the fire draws every witness into question.
A Quiet Life
When their novelist father takes a teaching post in California and their mother goes with him, twenty-year-old Ma-chan is left in Tokyo to keep house for her younger brother and her mentally disabled older brother, Eeyore, who composes music.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
Searching for Sylvie Lee
Sylvie Lee flies from New York to the Netherlands to see her dying grandmother, who raised her, and vanishes. Her younger sister Amy, who has never travelled, goes after her.
True Biz
At the River Valley School for the Deaf, Charlie, a teenager whose cochlear implant has never worked well, arrives late in her schooling, February, the hearing headmistress, fights to keep the school open, and Austin, a student from a deaf family, faces change at home.
The Violin Conspiracy
Ray McMillian, a young Black violinist who taught himself to play, finds that his family's old fiddle is a Stradivarius, and weeks before the Tchaikovsky Competition it is stolen, with a ransom note.
Black Cake
Byron and Benny Bennett, estranged siblings, come home to California after their mother's death to find she has left them a long voice recording, the story of her life in the Caribbean, and a black cake in the freezer.
Heartwood
Valerie Gillis, a forty-two-year-old hiker known on the trail as Sparrow, disappears on a dangerous stretch of the Appalachian Trail in Maine, and Lieutenant Beverly Miller of the Maine Warden Service leads the search, while an old woman in a care home follows it online.
The Deep End of the Ocean
Beth Cappadora takes her three children to her high school reunion in a Chicago hotel, turns her back for a moment in the crowded lobby, and her three-year-old son, Ben, is gone.
Wonder
August Pullman, a ten-year-old boy born with a severe facial difference, has always been taught at home, and when he starts fifth grade at a private school in Manhattan, he has to convince his classmates that he is an ordinary kid.
Please Look After Mom
When their sixty-nine-year-old mother vanishes in a crowded Seoul subway station, her husband and grown children search the city and realise how little they knew about her.
The Lost Man
Two brothers meet at the stockman's grave, a lonely landmark on the line between their cattle stations in outback Queensland, where their middle brother, Cameron, has been found dead.