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Joon is a young 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. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she's better off on her own and 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, committing petty crime, and, finally, towards something resembling hope.
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Professional reviews
"'A searing debut.' PEOPLE MAGAZINE 'A starkly beautiful book.' PETER HO DAVIES 'Teenage Korean immigrant Joon leaves her hopeless mother and finds life in the Bronx of the 1980s a tangle of cultural dislocation, drugs and sex for money. The dialogue and the narration accentuate the harshness of her world, making her final breakthrough the brighter.' RACHEL REDFORD, THE OBSERVER"
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