Run Me To Earth

Run Me To Earth is set mostly in Laos during the civil war. Three orphans, Alisak, Pranny and Noi travel together because they have been friends since childhood. A nurse finds them and gives them a job at a hospital. Now teenagers they learn to care for patients. They use motorcycles to get supplies for the hospital. The three friends have marked the safe route to and from the hospital avoided the unexploded bombs dropped in the area by the CIA. They come to enjoy their lives at the hospital but understand it won't last forever. Together they talk about their futures hoping to live their lives either in Thailand or France. The author, Paul Yoon, gives Alisak, Pranny and Noi the chance to narrate their story and tell their perspective of living a life in a time of war, poverty and displacement.