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Chronicling the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, Mistakes to Run With moves from her early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum to her teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her emergence as an award-winning author . . .
A devastatingly frank memoir of rebellion, life on the streets, and finding one's way that tears open the past to examine how circumstances (and the choices we make) dictate the people we become, Mistakes to Run With forces its readers to contemplate: How do we sacrifice our own freedoms in exchange for economic advantages? What it the true cost of survival?
"Books such as Mistakes to Run With are full of passion, pain and urgency, and offer the kind of triumph you feel lucky to witness." -- The Globe and Mail