Miles from nowhere
By: Nami Mun
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781594488542; 9781594483981
Subjects: Runaway teenagers; Teenage girls; Fiction
Description: Fleeing her 1980s Bronx family home in the wake of her unfaithful father's abandonment and her mother's mental illness, Korean teen Joon struggles through an adolescence marked by homeless shelters, addiction, and demeaning jobs.