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A Cab Called Reliable

A Novel

Patti Kim
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Pages
156
Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group

About

Ahn Joo Cho emigrated with her family from Korea to Virginia at the age of seven. Two years later, a cab called 'Reliable' took away her mother and her infant brother forever.

Grade by grade in school, Ahn Joo comes of age within an alien society, excelling at creative writing as her home life with her old-fashioned father deteriorates. Language heals her, and saves her. As Ahn Joo enters womanhood, a heart-breaking secret finally sets her free to create her own heritage.

This widely celebrated debut novel approaches growing up in America-whether as an immigrant or a native-from an honest, refreshingly authentic perspective.

Related Subjects

  • Literary
  • Adult Fiction
  • Asian American & Pacific Islander
  • Diversity & Multicultural

Reviews

"Rarely does a debut novel make a reader hunger for the author's next book, but anticipation is precisely what one feels after reading A Cab Called Reliable by Patti Kim...It is the story of one young woman's attempt to span the breach between what is and what ought to be."
The New York Times Book Review
"An obvious literary prodigy...remarkably accomplished."
USA Today
"Elegantly and humorously told...precise and assured storytelling."
The New York Times Book Review

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