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Zusatztext "[A] searing debut...[Mun] writes with lovely precision! lending a hallucinatory beauty to the bleak world she has created." - People (four stars! "Pick of the Week") "Emotionally upending...Mun relays it all with a jarring honesty that makes the book...impossible to forget." - Boston Globe "Gritty! riveting...Filled with soft and lovely descriptive touches...[Mun] zip[s] back and forth between despair and joy! between degradation and exhilaration." - Chicago Tribune "Remarkable...As the best novelists do! Mun has taken the essence of her personal experience and reshaped it into something original." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Heartbreaking...We follow teenage runaway Joon as she navigates dark New York streets! and ultimately finds hope and the will to survive." - Glamour "Brilliant and authentic...Those who delight in the raw power of words have a new author to add to our libraries." - Dallas Morning News "Graceful! nearly transcendent...One of the most vivid and haunting novels I've read in years." - San Diego Union- Tribune "Beautiful...Illuminates a side of American life one is not likely to see elsewhere." - The Believer Informationen zum Autor Nami Mun Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
