Describe your latest work. When I started working on Plant-Thinking in 2008, I had no idea that the project would turn out to be as broad as it did....
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Matthew Holley, May 21, 2010 (view all comments by Matthew Holley)
More a collection of joined short stories than a novel, about a Korean teenage girl in the Bronx who runs away from home and gets all tangled up in trying to survive, including drug abuse and prostitution. A jolting read. It's not often you come upon this kind of protagonist and I wonder how much of the book was autobiographical. I'm interested to see what Mun puts out next.
"Synopsis"
by Ingram,
In raw and beautiful prose, debut novelist Mun delivers the story of a young woman who is at once tough and vulnerable, faced with insurmountable odds and yet fiercely determined to survive. In the process, Mun creates one of the most indelible characters in recent fiction.
"Synopsis"
by Ingram,
A major voice in fiction debuts with the story of a teenage runaway on the streets of 1980s New York.
Teenage Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity; he has left the family, and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she would be better off on her own, a choice that commences a harrowing and often tragic journey that exposes the painful difficulties of a life lived on the margins. Joon's adolescent years take her from a homeless shelter to an escort club, through struggles with addiction, to jobs selling newspapers and cosmetics, committing petty crimes, and finally toward something resembling hope.
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