Miracle Creek

by Angie Kim

It was ironic, how he was in there to try to have kids, but everywhere he turned, he felt like, God, do I really want kids? So much can go wrong.

what was grad school but the institutionalization of a future-oriented mind-set?

That was both the best and worst part, that all that happened was the unintended consequence of a good person’s mistakes.

Good things and bad—every friendship and romance formed, every accident, every illness—resulted from the conspiracy of hundreds of little things, in and of themselves inconsequential.