Miles from nowhere
By: Nami Mun
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leicester [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781847828590
Subjects: Korean American teenagers; Fiction; Teenage girls; Runaway teenagers
Description: "Thirteen-year-old Joon is a 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. Deciding she's better off alone, Joon 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."--Publisher description.