The Husband Hour
by Jamie Brenner |
The Problem with Murmur Lee
by Connie May Fowler |
Life After Genius
by M. Ann Jacoby |
Tuesday Nights in 1980
by Molly Prentiss |
Serendipity
by Louise Shaffer |
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride | 
Andrew's Brain
by E. L. Doctorow | 
Kitty Foyle
by Christopher Morley |
This Side of Innocence
by Taylor Caldwell | 
Point of No Return
by John P. Marquand | 
Pilgrim's Inn
by Elizabeth Goudge |
Daughter of Silence
by Morris West | 
The Plot
by Irving Wallace | 
The Insult
by Rupert Thomson | 
The Good Companions
by J. B. Priestley | 
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult | 
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout | 
Don't Let Me Go
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver |
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.