{"product_id":"miles-from-nowhere-isbn-9781594483981","title":"Miles from Nowhere","description":"\u003cb\u003eA major voice in fiction debuts with the story of a teenage runaway on the streets of 1980s New York.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\"[A] searing debut...[Mun] writes with lovely precision, lending a hallucinatory beauty to the bleak world she has created.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e (four stars, \"Pick of the Week\")\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Emotionally upending...Mun relays it all with a jarring honesty that makes the book...impossible to forget.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gritty, riveting...Filled with soft and lovely descriptive touches...[Mun] zip[s] back and forth between despair and joy, between degradation and exhilaration.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Remarkable...As the best novelists do, Mun has taken the essence of her personal experience and reshaped it into something original.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Heartbreaking...We follow teenage runaway Joon as she navigates dark New York streets, and ultimately finds hope and the will to survive.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Brilliant and authentic...Those who delight in the raw power of words have a new author to add to our libraries.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Graceful, nearly transcendent...One of the most vivid and haunting novels I've read in years.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union- Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Beautiful...Illuminates a side of American life one is not likely to see elsewhere.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003eNami Mun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up there and in Bronx, New York. She has worked as an Avon Lady, an activities coordinator for a nursing home, a photojournalist, and a criminal investigator. After earning her GED, she graduated from UC Berkeley, and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, she has published in numerous journals including the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology, \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review, Tin House, Evergreen Review, Witness, \u003c\/i\u003e and other journals. She currently lives in Chicago.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300460089573,"sku":"NP9781594483981","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594483981.jpg?v=1767732689","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/miles-from-nowhere-isbn-9781594483981","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}