Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun is reviewed in The Observer

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Rachel Redford reviewed Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun in The Observer:

"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."

Honest, inventive and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, Miles from Nowhere is a dazzling debut novel that will haunt and inspire.

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