Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun

namimun — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:54:33 +0000

Miles from Nowhere selected as one of Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels

Nami Mun named “Best New Novelist” by Chicago Magazine

Miles from Nowhere selected for Amazon’s Best Fiction of 2009 So Far list

Miles from Nowhere is one of three novels shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers (Read article in the Independent)

Miles from Nowhere selected for “Top Shelf: Recommended Reading” by Book Passage/San Francisco Chronicle

Miles from Nowhere selected for “Spring Reading For Your Bedside Table” by KPBS.org

Miles from Nowhere selected for “Adult Book Picks” by The Spartanburg Herald-Journal

“Vivid and mournful… impossible to forget.” – Boston Globe

“[A] searing debut…[Mun] writes with lovely precision, lending a hallucinatory beauty to the bleak world she has created.” – People Magazine (Four stars, People Pick)

“…a gritty, riveting story about a teenage runaway who drifts through the casual nightmares of street life.” – Chicago Tribune

“[Mun] illuminates a side of American life one is not likely to see elsewhere…She does many thing extremely well, and one of those is forcing the reader to feel the bone-chilling cold of having nowhere to go.” – The Believer

“…exquisite and shattering debut novel…” – Chicago Public Radio’s “Eight Forty-Eight”

“Mun is an artist… she renders the painful realities of Joon’s life so beautifully that one must keep reading…” – The Dallas Morning News

“…beautifully grim, completely addictive novel.” – Chicago Magazine

“…explosive first novel.” Booklist (Starred Review)

“…grim but absolutely authentic…A haunting debut.”-Library Journal (Starred Review)

“Radical and admirable…”-Le Monde

“A starkly beautiful book, shot through with grace and lit by an off-hand street poetry. Nami Mun takes a cast of junkies and runaways and brings them fiercely and frankly to life.” -Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl

“Stunning…whatever heartache or humor you find within these pages is embodied in her shimmering prose, distilled to the bone.” -Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“Suspenseful, funny, painful, and poetic…” -Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint It Black

“Nami Mun is easily one of the most important new talents in American fiction.”
-Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh