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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Blog Tour- IN THE TUNNEL by @julieleeauthor With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @HolidayHouseBks

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the IN THE TUNNEL by Julie Lee Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About the Book:

Title: IN THE TUNNEL

Author: Julie Lee

Pub. Date: May 30, 2023

Publisher: Holiday House

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 304

Find it: Goodreadshttps://books2read.com/IN-THE-TUNNEL

Trapped in an enemy tunnel, a young refugee experiences the Korean War firsthand in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope, a companion to the Freeman Award-winning novel Brother’s Keeper.

Myung-gi knows war is coming: War between North and South Korea. Life in communist North Korea has become more and more unbearable—there is no freedom of speech, movement, association, or thought—and his parents have been carefully planning the family’s escape.

But when his father is abducted by the secret police, all those plans fall apart. How can Myung-gi leave North Korea without his dad? Especially when he believes that the abduction was his fault?

Set during a cataclysmic war which shaped the world we know today, this is the story of one boy’s coming-of-age during a time when inhumanity, lawlessness, and terror reigned supreme. Myung-gi, his mother, and his twelve-year-old sister Yoomee do everything they can to protect one another. But gentle, quiet, bookish Myung-gi has plans to find his father at any cost—even if it means joining the army and being sent to the front lines, where his deepest fears await him.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Book Riot Best New Book of 2023
"An absolute must-read."—Booklist, starred review
"Vivid, powerful."—School Library Journal
"Moving."—Publishers Weekly
"Searing. . . . Beautifully written."—Book Riot

 

In the Tunnel

By Julie Lee

 

Excerpt for Rockstar Book Tours

 

Excerpt from In the Tunnel / Text copyright © 2023 by Julie Lee. Reproduced with permission from Holiday House Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.

 

 

CHAPTER 1

October 1952: Myung‐gi, Age 16

I am determined, unstoppable,

body-flinging-down determined
on this thousand, ten thousand ri I shall go.

Leap quick as an arrow up
this road and go, and let
the burning mountain, the mountain burning

raise its columns of smoke.
—Kim Sowol, Thousand, Ten Thousand Ri

 

This is the end.

Myung‐gi knows this because everything is in slow motion—bodies flying, mortar shells dropping, the lieutenant’s mouth moving. And all he can see is his father—sitting in his office, wearing his principal’s suit jacket. Sorry, Ahpa, he tries to say, but his father’s face disappears in gun smoke.

Advance forward! To the top! Go, go, go!

It’s the lieutenant. Lit up by searchlights. His arm thrusting wildly toward the top of the hill. But in the autumn dark, the enemy crawl out of hidden foxholes—right behind the line of advancing South Korean soldiers.

“Watch out! Lieutenant!” Myung‐gi runs up the rocky slope, carrying his rifle on his back like a satchel of books. Because he barely got training, never fired at anyone. He didn’t sign up to be a front‐line soldier. He signed up to find his father.

Bullets whiz past his ear. He ducks, dodges, prays for dumb luck.

But still he roars, joining the chorus of others. Louder than he’s ever shouted. Harder than he’s ever pushed. And for a second, it feels right.

Until a grenade flashes before Myung‐gi’s eyes, blinding him.

He trips, rolls, drops his weapon, loses his helmet. His ankle snaps. “No! Myung‐gi!” someone shouts. It sounds like Gum Boy—the only other recruit who never knows what’s going on. All he does is chew gum all day and hop onto the Americans’ Patton tank to gawk at all the moving parts. Why so much worry in his voice?

Myung‐gi is falling.

Down the hill. The mountainside jabbing, pounding, scraping him raw.

He lands in an opening—a gigantic rabbit hole—and crawls in deep. He pictures himself in a cross‐section of the earth, positioned on all fours, pink and hairless. But no, this is no animal burrow— this is a tunnel, an enemy tunnel. A dusty wind blows in his face, stifles his breathing, narrows the walls. He coughs and sputters.

A terrible crash slams the hillside. Myung‐gi flattens himself, covers his head. Bits of rock and dirt rain down on him. Parts of the tunnel are collapsing. He can no longer see the way he came in. And it’s not just because of his glasses, which are now cracked. Walls are caving—

Until it stops.

 


About Julie:

Julie Lee, a marketer-turned-writer, lives in an Atlanta suburb with her three children and her husband. A first-generation American, her mother escaped North Korea during the Korean War and later immigrated to the United States. Julie holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from VCFA, as well as a BA in History from Cornell.

 

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a finished copy of IN THE TUNNEL, US Only.

Ends June 20th, midnight EST.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

6/5/2023

The Chirpy Bookaholic

Excerpt/IG Post

6/5/2023

A Dream Within A Dream

Excerpt

6/6/2023

Two Chicks on Books

Excerpt/IG Post

6/6/2023

#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog

Excerpt/IG Post

6/7/2023

@evergirl200

IG Review

6/7/2023

@pagesforpaige

IG Review

6/8/2023

Log Cabin Library

Review

6/8/2023

Ariandher.books

IG Review

6/9/2023

The Momma Spot

Excerpt

6/9/2023

YA Books Central

Excerpt/IG Post

Week Two:

6/12/2023

@get.outside.and.read

IG Review

6/12/2023

OneMoreExclamation

Review/IG Post

6/13/2023

Lifestyle of Me

Review

6/13/2023

@stargirls.magical.tale

IG Review

6/14/2023

Two Points of Interest

Review

6/14/2023

Little Red Reads

Review/IG Post

6/15/2023

@froggyreadteach

IG Review

6/15/2023

Country Mamas With Kids

Review/IG Post

6/16/2023

A Blue Box Full of Books

IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post

6/16/2023

@jlreadstoperpetuity

IG Review/TikTok Post


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