Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun
Joon is a young Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she's better off on her own and sets out on a harrowing and sometimes tragic journey, exposing herself to all the pain and difficulty of a life lived on the margins. Joon's years on the streets 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, towards something resembling hope. In raw and beautiful prose, Nami Mun tells the story of a young woman who is at once tough yet vulnerable, world-weary yet naive, faced with insurmountable odds and yet fiercely determined to survive. Honest, inventive and profoundly moving, Miles From Nowhere is a dazzling debut novel that will haunt and inspire.
** 'Miles from Nowhere is a starkly beautiful book, shot through with grace and lit by an off-hand street poetryNami Mun takes a cast of junkies and runaways and brings them fiercely and frankly to life. It's a measure of the artistry of the work that even in their grimmest, darkest moments, rather than being repelled by these characters, we want to stay beside them, as if to care for them, or at least to bear witness to their lives * Peter Ho Davies, author of THE WELSH GIRL *
** 'Nami Mun is easily one of the most important new talents in American fiction. The first time I read her work, I thought two things: one, that I knew these characters, people I'd always seen but had never heard from, stories I always knew were there bu * Alexander Chee, author of EDINBURGH *
Scams, violence and sudden friendships of street life in New York City.... Nami Mun's debut is suspenseful, funny, painful and poetic * Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander *
** 'Nami Mun is easily one of the most important new talents in American fiction. The first time I read her work, I thought two things: one, that I knew these characters, people I'd always seen but had never heard from, stories I always knew were there bu * Alexander Chee, author of EDINBURGH *
Scams, violence and sudden friendships of street life in New York City.... Nami Mun's debut is suspenseful, funny, painful and poetic * Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander *
Born in Seoul, Korea and raised there as well as in the Bronx, New York, Nami Mun has been employed variously as an Avon Lady, a dance hostess and a photojournalist before turning to writing. See www.namimun.com for more information.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844085446 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844085449 |
| Title | Miles From Nowhere |
| Author | Nami Mun |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2009-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2009 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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