Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

 The reasons you will love "happiness Falls" by Angie Kim:

1. The author's voice is engaging, fresh, quirky, totally believable
2. The pace is tight
3. The theme of happiness woven through the story makes for some good thinking
4. You will care about the characters
5. You will immediately look for more books by this author

Blurb:

"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean-American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing.

Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia's brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.