A Book Review: “Miles From Nowhere”
Definitely a good read! I approve, go out and get it or borrow it from me. It is eerie to fathom a City that everyone loves, has people gasping for air because the City does not care for them. This book follows an individual who searches for an oxygen tank to sustain her existence.
Joon leaves her mentally crippled mother and a home void of connection behind to drift further “Miles from Nowhere.” The 1980s Bronx streets is no place for an untainted teenager. The forgotten street dwellers the City overlooks easily ingests Joon into their venomous belly. She gets stricken with narcotics addiction that has her in a fiend, relationships that pull her harder into an unforgivable depression, and jobs that cheat her out of her innocence. With all these encounters a harsh exterior of dead skin engulf her spirit. Joon craves the support of a family, the kind of nurture her parents never had the will to give. When forsaken by the City and the people, Joon has no choice but to recover the strength and the answers within.
Nami Mun has created a sensitive soul that is every bit wandering, but is equally relentless in not making the streets her final destination. Readers can relate some part of themselves with Joon. We have all been lost in our discovery of self-definition. Mun opens the chest to a deep and dark Korean American girl, a story rarely attempted. She has succeeded in giving voice to all the non-model minorities. Mun uses simple sentences and non-obtrusive lines that seem to understand readers’ thoughts. Her imagery is moving, which places the reader at the height of looking “Miles from Nowhere.”
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