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Store Events - September 9, 7:30 p.m.
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Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Location: Women & Children First
Title of Event: Nami Mun
Miles from Nowhere
In the tough, pre-Giuliani days of New York City in the 1980s, a thirteen-year-old Korean-American girl called Joon flees her dysfunctional family for a life on the streets. For five years, she threads a path of survival through homelessness, drug addiction, and physical abuse in a novel whose gritty poetry recollects the work of Dorothy Allison. Short listed for an Orange Award, and named as one of the best novels (so far) of 2009, Miles from Nowhere is a vivid, unforgettable meditation in love and fate and fortune. Mun teaches in the Fiction Department of Columbia College Chicago. Nowhere
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Miles from Nowhere
by
Mun, Nami
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.00
Published: Riverhead Books, 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
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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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Miles from Nowhere
by
Mun, Nami
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$21.95
Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
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In raw and beautiful prose, debut novelist Mun delivers the story of a young woman who is at once tough and vulnerable, world-weary and naive, faced with insurmountable odds and yet fiercely determined to survive. In the process, Mun creates one of the most indelible characters in recent fiction.
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