Poets & Writers

A. H. Kim

Age: 55. Residence: San Francisco. Book: A Good Family (Graydon House, July 2020), a domestic thriller about a glamorous Big Pharma executive who pleads guilty in a whistleblower lawsuit and enters Alderson women’s prison, only to suspect that one of her own family members helped set her up. Agent: Kirby Kim at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Editor: Brittany Lavery.

I WAS forty-seven years old and on vacation in San Diego when, which had recently been released and was getting lots of buzz. The book—a touching story of first love between two teenagers who meet in a cancer support group—left me gutted. When I finished wiping away my tears, I had one clear thought: I want to write a novel. And because I work best with deadlines, I decided I wanted to be published by the time I turned fifty.

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