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Happiness Falls
- Narrated by: Angie Kim, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Shannon Tyo, Thomas Pruyn
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
We didn't call the police right away. Later, I would blame myself, wonder if things might have turned out differently if I hadn't shrugged it off, insisting Dad wasn't missing missing but just delayed, probably still in the woods looking for Eugene.
Mia Parkson's life is turned upside down when her stay-at-home dad, the family's anchor, goes missing. The only witness? Eugene - her nonverbal teenage younger brother.
As the Police struggle for leads, and her mother and twin brother struggle to keep things together at home, Mia gains access to key clues about her father's disappearance. Headstrong, hyper analytical, and with secrets of her own, she decides to try and solve the case. But could Mia's impulsive actions be putting her whole family in danger?
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- Jane hodgson
- 03-07-24
Loved the growing understanding of non-verbal world
To begin with found the plot too detailed and ploddy, but that was needed to build the family’s world which includes a non-verbal person. Truly appreciate the gripping plot and my new understanding of the experiences of different people.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-07-24
The hopefulness
The challenges to the traditional understanding of some children, diagnosed as being autistic, is fascinating. The plot of the story is unique.
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- CiaraOH
- 27-02-24
Interesting, intriguing and important
I loved everything about this book. Not only is it as insightful as it is compelling, it features brilliant characters, and is told from a fascinating and fresh perspective. The narrative forces readers/listeners to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices. It gives a voice to people who are often marginalised and overlooked, and highlights important social issues without ever being heavyhanded. I learned so much about Angelman syndrome and the experiences of nonspeaking neurodiverse people. I loved listening to the author's afterword and from the work she mentions she does with nonspeaking writers, she sounds like an amazing person. I've never reviewed an audiobook before but really wanted to convey how much I enjoyed this and how relevant it is too.
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- Janesterr
- 14-02-24
Family, culture, mental health and maybe a crime
The story is very interesting and explains the dynamic of an immigrant family with their internal and external struggles. Sometimes you forget that this is about a potential crime, because the daughter's experiences are explained so captivatingly.
The book is written in first person from the daughter's perspective, but everyone's actions and feelings are well explained.
The narrators of the audio book is very good too.
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- kerry
- 13-09-24
A mystery novel with a difference
Absolutely loved navigating the twists and turns of this Korean-American family as they became aware of the disappearance of their father and as this situation began to unfold. The situation was further complicated by the fourteen year old son, who has ASD and Angeman syndrome, and was also unable to communicate verbally, being the last person to see him. The novel was filled with twists and turns and was multi layered as it also included the racial elements of looking white/korean/black in America, particularly during 2020, as well as our bias and assumptions surrounding people we can consider to be 'non verbal' or intellectually inferior based on our own prejudice. Highly recommend
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- Mrs Belinda Newey
- 25-05-24
very disappointing
very poorly narrated and a boring story. I loved the previous novel so doubly disappointed.
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- alexander p.
- 05-09-24
A Tampering Teenagers’ Overjustifications
If you enjoy narration from a teenager who enjoys overanalysing everything with a clear love of psychology and maths with a history of being a pathological liar... oh and someone who looks at her brother and starts going on about how much of a man he has become and focuses on his arm muscles... a lot..... And someone who TAMPERS with evidence and LIES again and again.....then this is the book for you!
To summarize In the end I supported the Detective, wanted the dad dead and wanted the kids to all serve time, it was a deeply flat ending of "oh okay I guess we'll never know"
If you yourself love psychology you may enjoy a teenagers inner overthinking, especially when discussing forms of communication and identity this book is for you.
This book felt in one word "boggy". It was opinionated factually where the same narrator had lied easily multiple times which resulted in me never trusting the “facts" she (and the writer) was advocating/ giving... which seemed like every other sentence... so every "fact" made me care less and dislike the narrator more.
Justify, re-justify, opinion, theory, overthink, over-justification and then barely enough plot momentum to keep me going and then the mystery never gets a conclusive ending (no surprise with the context of the plot) but come on after such a boggy slog give me something rewarding... like an actual ending...
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