Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid

Evelyn Lau

Coach House, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 276 pages

Contents

• Prologue: 9
• March 22June 18 1986: 13
• June 22September 14 1986 SI Part III September 15December 30 1986: 93

About the author

Evelyn Yee-Fun Lau was born in Vancouver on July 2, 1971 to Chinese immigrants. Her parents were obsessive about their children, demanding constant top performance at school and expecting Lau to become a medical doctor. In 1983 she began publishing poems and short stories in magazines. Early in 1986 she ran away from her unbearable family and school life. She became a drug abuser and prostitute in Vancouver and chronicling in her diary her life on the streets and her struggle as an emerging writer. The manuscript became a bestseller when it was published in 1989 under the title Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, and was later turned into a made-for-television movie. Fresh Girls & Other Stories published in 1993, established her as one of Canada's leading writers.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid
• Author: Evelyn Lau
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Coach House, 1995
• ISBN: 0889104913, 9780889104914
• Length: 276 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists; Social Science / Children's Studies