Run me to earth a novel

Alisak, Prany, and Noi--three orphans united by devastating loss--must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as mo...

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Main Author: Yoon, Paul (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2020]
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Summary:Alisak, Prany, and Noi--three orphans united by devastating loss--must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It's a move with irrevocable consequences--and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world
Physical Description:viii, 259 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN:9781501154041
1501154044
9781501154058
1501154052
Author Notes:Paul Yoon is the author of six works of fiction: Etna ; Once the Shore , a New York Times Notable Book; Snow Hunters , winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain , an NPR Best Book of the Year; Run Me to Earth , a Time Must-Read Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; and The Hive and the Honey , winner of the 20th Annual Story Prize and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates prize.