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Bloomsbury presents The Good Girls written and read by Sonia Faleiro. ‘Narrative reportage at its best. Just extraordinary’ Fatima Bhutto 'A page-turner, a feminist text, and an essential read that is deeply empathetic' Deepa Anappara, author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line A masterly and...

“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park “One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into...

As China undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a world of fantasy and foreign influences while grappling with the mundane vagaries of Communist rule. She happily immigrates to Oakland, California, expecting her new life to be far better. Instead, she discovers crumbling schools, unsafe streets, and racist people. In the land of the free, she comes of age amid the dysfunction of a city's brokenness and learns to hate in the shadows of urban decay. This is the unforgettable story of her journey from China to an American ghetto and how she prevailed. 

Through vivid storytelling, Early Bloomers explores the challenges and triumphs faced by high schoolers as they navigated the complexities of love, sexual awakening, identity, and self-discovery in this era of openness and cultural fusion. This novella holds high literary value in shedding light on a rarely explored group of individuals, and it also holds immense social and economic significance as some of them will play a major role in shaping the next generation as leaders.