Run Me To Earth

"When I was reading this tragic and beautiful novel, I thought of Wilfred Owen’s lines: “My subject is War, and the pity of War. / The Poetry is in the pity.” Paul Yoon tells the story of teenage orphans Alisak, Prany and Noi, who in the 1960s have come together in the Laotian countryside to make a family united by loss as the U.S. bombing raids on their small country (less than half the size of Texas) continue unabated. The stunning prose – like poetry, really – is spare, subtle and unsentimental, creating a novel that will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned."