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I must be wooed, the more sly or oblique the subject matter, the better, and even then i like it on the short side and not packed with details. Emotionally upendingmun relays it all with a jarring honesty that makes the bookimpossible to forget. Best of all, if after reading an e book, you buy a paper version of miles from nowhere. Kindle ebooks can be read on any device with the free kindle app.
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In raw and beautiful prose, nami mun tells the story of a young woman who is at once tough yet vulnerable, worldweary yet naive, faced with insurmountable odds and yet fiercely determined to survive. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading miles from nowhere. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. At the center stands narrator joon, in the first chapter a yearold runaway looking to make it on the streets of new york. For her first book, miles from nowhere, she received a whiting award, a pushcart prize, the chicago public librarys 21st century award, the hopwood award, and was shortlisted for the orange prize for new writers and the asian american literary award. Nami mun is a korean american novelist and short story writer.
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