Miles from Nowhere

Extraordinary. Gripping. Harrowing. Moving. Hopeless. Hopeful. A truly gorgeous book about a young woman whose parents failed her so she made a life for herself on the streets. Unforgettable.......more

I bought this book as Authors such as Roxane Gay and Chuck Palahniuk had praised it. However I did leave it on my shelf for a while before picking it up. 3.5 rounded up Miles from Nowhere is a collection of dark, harrowing accounts of a young girl trying to survive after running away from home. At t......more

A sad, harrowing novel and a bewildering one to rate. Miles from Nowhere follows thirteen-year-old Joon as she navigates the streets of New York. Her father abandoned her and her mother, and her mother suffered from a severe mental illness with no ability to take care of Joon, so Joon left to fend f......more

[I received an ARC of this book through Goodreads' First-reads program.] “I was trapped in my body, and my body was trapped in this empty lot with men who knew nothing about love or pity but everything else crucial,” our young narrator, Joon, tells us early in this debut novel by Nami Mun. Like so mu......more

It's like this: I was in the second bookstore of the day (Waldenbooks; first had been Hastings) and was browsing the shelves. Just browsing; I wasn't planning on buying another book. I saw this book, and didn't recognize the name. I looked at the cover. I didn't want to touch it; it's light, white in......more