A Step From Heaven was fantastic, short, and very touching. As I was reading it, I found the language and the style reminded me of Speak, and then I found that the publisher is “speak”, a part of Penguin Putnam Inc. They have just a handful of other books that they’ve published so far- but if they are anything like Speak or A Step From Heaven, I wouldn’t mind picking them up. This is a very short read, and the style is in stream of consciousness and about a Korean girl growing up with her family now in America. Boozy, you would love it. The book starts with Young Ju at a very young age, and the author An Na does a marvelous job transitioning from the mind of a seven year old, to the mind of a nineteen year old. I’ve also chosen to include an excerpt. Enjoy! [...]
