Mistakes to Run With
My Story of Rebellion, Life on the Street, and Finding My Way
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“On rare occasions, you read a book that gives you the sense it had to be written, that the impulse to get these words on the page was more about necessity than choice. Books such as those are full of passion, pain and urgency, and offer the kind of triumph you feel lucky to witness. Mistakes to Run With is one such book—it feels driven by the compulsion to document, by the urgent human desire to be heard. And when every detail has been shared, every unvarnished truth thoughtfully relayed, Thanh makes you want to stand up and cheer the accomplishment.” —The Globe and Mail
“Bold, brave, and engrossing. . . . Thanh’s survival is story of sheer will…
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May 2, 2023YASUKO THANH’s story collection Floating Like the Dead was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and named a Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year. Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, her debut novel, won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize for Fiction, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, and was nominated for the Amazon First Novel Award. Thanh’s memoir, Mistakes to Run With, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes in the 2020 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She lives in Victoria, B.C.
To the Bridge
Yasuko Thanh
Mistakes to Run With
Yasuko Thanh
Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
Yasuko Thanh