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A Step from Heaven

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From master storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award–winning novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of looking for her place and identity in The us from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey through the teenage years.

At age four, Young Ju moves with her parents from Korea to Southern California. She has all the time imagined The us would be like heaven: easy, blissful, and full of riches. But when her circle of relatives arrives, she finds it to be the opposite. With a stubborn language barrier and cultural dissimilarities, not only is it not possible to make friends, but even her circle of relatives’s internal bonds are wavering. Her parents’ finances are strained, yet her father’s stomach is filled with booze.

As Young Ju’s once solid and reliable circle of relatives starts tearing apart, her younger brother begins to gain more freedom and respect simply on account of his gender. Young Ju begins to lose all hope in the dream she once held—the heaven she longs for. Whilst she begins to in spite of everything fit in, a cataclysmic circle of relatives event will change her idea of heaven endlessly. But it also helps her to recognize the strength she holds, and envision the future she desires, and deserves.


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