A Cab Called Reliable: A Novel

by Patti Kim

Overview

An extraordinary debut and exciting new voice in multicultural fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312190309
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/15/1998
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Patti Kim was born in Pusan, Korea, in 1970 and immigrated to the United States in 1974. She was the Diane Cleaver Fellow at Ledwig House, the New York writers' colony. A Cab Called Reliable is her first novel. It won the 1997 Towson University Prize for Literature and was a nominee for the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction. She lives in Potomac, Maryland.

Editorial Reviews

“Elegantly and humorously told...precise and assured storytelling.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Rarely does a debut novel make a reader hunger for the author's next book, but anticipation is precisely what one feels after reading A Cab Called Reliable by Patti Kim...It is the story of one young woman's attempt to span the breach between what is and what ought to be.” —The New York Times Book Review

“An obvious literary prodigy...remarkably accomplished.” —USA Today

“Affecting...memorable and moving.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Elegantly and humorously told. -- NY Times Book Review

Denise Gess