Miles From Nowhere

The good news is I live in Chicago, which is the exact opposite of this title. I can read virtually any book for free through the Chicago Public Library, with a branch conveniently located one block from my apartment. Right now I'm about 200 pages into Miles From Nowhere, the debut novel by Nami Mun. Even better news: this talented woman is my fiction writing professor for the fall semester at Columbia. If you're looking for the next book to pick up, I highly recommend Mun's powerful novel about a teenage Korean runaway's life in New York City. Beautiful prose, intense material, and innovative, engaging storytelling make this one of the best books I've read since the last book I read (The Stranger by Albert Camus; I try to make all the books I read great since life is short). This is better than Camus though. Way better.

"Life's about confirming what we already know."
-Nami Mun



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