Miles from Nowhere

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 09/01/2009
ISBN: 9781594483981
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.12h x 5.04w x 0.84d

Review Citations: People Weekly 09/14/2009 pg. 63

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 135965 / Miles from Nowhere
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 9