Yoon, Paul,

Run me to earth : a novel / Paul Yoon. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - viii, 259 pages ; 19 cm

"From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos-and how their destinies are entwined across decades"-- "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"--Publisher

Senior High School Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS)


In English

9781501154041

2019013516


Guerrilla couriers --Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History --Laos --20th century-- Fiction.
Orphans --Fiction.
Physicians --Fiction.

PS3625.O54 / R86 2020

813.6 Y8 / 2020