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This is the debut novel of Mun, and it isn't an easy one. At the age of 13, after her father left them for another woman and her mother went completely insane (she was already half-way there, but...), Joon decides that she would be better off on her own, on the streets. The book is basically 5 years of vignette's about the various situations she had fallen into. Most are not pretty, but Joon accepts them all without anger or much emotion at all--some of that is the drugs she's on, but most of it
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This book is definitely not for the light hearted. It depicts the harsh story of Joon, a teenage runaway in New York. She leaves her home after her father abandons her family and her mother goes crazy. It's a good story, well written, but the graphic descriptions of her heroine use and staging an accident to abort her own baby were pretty stomach churning. I believe this is a first novel for Mun, so it'll be interesting to see where she goes from here.
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Apr 13, 2009
Julie
marked it as to-read
