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    Run Me to Earth
    Run Me to Earth
    Run Me to Earth
    Audiobook6 hours

    Run Me to Earth

    Written by Paul Yoon

    Narrated by Ramón de Ocampo

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    From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a “spellbinding” (The Washington Post) novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.”

    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.

    Spanning decades, this “richly layered” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) book weaves together storylines laced with beauty and cruelty. Paul Yoon’s “greatest skill lies in crafting subtle moments that underline the strange and specific sadness inherent to trauma” (Time) and this book is a breathtaking historical feat and a fierce study of the powers of hope, perseverance, and grace.

    Editor's Note

    Enlightening and enthralling…

    Paul Yoon tells a story of war-torn Laos; his descriptions of bombed-out buildings and landscapes, his clarity around absence, makes readers feel the characters’ acute sense of being unmoored, of the destruction of time and space, safety and self. It’s an enlightening and enthralling tale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 28, 2020
    ISBN9781797101859
    Author

    Paul Yoon

    Paul Yoon is the author of four previous works of fiction: Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book; Snow Hunters, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year; and Run Me to Earth, which was one of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York. .

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      I have no idea what this book is about. I listened to the end because the reader was so good. I kept thinking that it would come together at some point. Maybe at the end? The characters were not underrstandable for me - not well developed.