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Miles from Nowhere

About the E-Books

Author
Nami Mun
Co-Author
-
Translator
-
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published Year
2008
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > English and American literatures

Original Title
Miles from Nowhere
Original Language

English(English)

ISBN
9781440633461
Page
-
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

  • Nami Mun
  • Birth : - ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : -
  • Family Name : -
  • Korean Name : 문나미
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
About the Original Work
  • Miles from Nowhere
  • Author : Nami Mun
  • Published Year : 2008
  • English Title : Miles from Nowhere
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

A major voice in fiction debuts with the story of a teenage runaway on the streets of 1980s New York.

Teenage Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity; he has left the family, and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she would be better off on her own, a choice that commences a harrowing and often tragic journey that exposes the painful difficulties of a life lived on the margins. Joon's adolescent years take her from a homeless shelter to an escort club, through struggles with addiction, to jobs selling newspapers and cosmetics, committing petty crimes, and finally toward something resembling hope.

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