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 · Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid by Evelyn Lau. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,  · The Diary of Evelyn Lau: Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson. With Sandra Oh, Harrison Liu, Yan Cui, Cai Red. A teenage girl runs away from home and her very strict mother, becomes a prostitute and drug-addict, which she writes a book about/10(92). Buy a cheap copy of Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid book by Evelyn Lau. Bright and talented, but at odds with her parents, year-old Evelyn Lau ran away to spend the next two years submerged in drugs, prostitution and despair on the Free shipping over $

The manuscript became a bestseller when it was published in under the title Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid. Generally considered a "one shot" literary success, Lau nevertheless went on publishing two volumes of Also in , Runaway was made into a 97 minute television movie entitled The Diary of Evelyn Lau. Evelyn Lau is the Vancouver author of thirteen books, including eight volumes of poetry. Her first book, Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid (HarperCollins, ) was published when she was 18; it was made into a CBC movie starring Sandra Oh in her first major role. Evelyn's short stories, essays and novel have been translated into a dozen languages. On Oct. 14, , Lau was named the poet laureate for the city of Vancouver. She is the third poet to hold this honorary position; her plan is to offer 'poet-in-residence consultations with aspiring poets'. Bibliography Memoirs. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid - (HarperCollins,) (shortlisted for the Periodical Marketers of Canada Award.

Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid. Runaway.: Even as a six-year-old child, Evelyn Lau already knew what she would be in life -- a writer. She would spend countless hours in her room writing short stories and poems trying to avoid the suffocating reality surrounding her. At the age of fourteen, forbidden by her strict parents to “waste” any. Her very neurotic mother was murdering her emotionally, so at age fourteen, she ran away from home. She went into the expected downward spiral into prostitution and drugs addiction. But Evelyn kept a journal through the two years she was on the street, and the process of journaling was a major factor in her survival. During her two harrowing years on the street, Lau’s writing ambition never left her; almost obsessively, she kept a written record of her days on the street; this record is Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid. A bestselling memoir, Runaway is a story of survival: physical, emotional and psychological. It is at times tragic, sometimes infuriating, but always honest and inspired; Runaway makes no apologies and offers no solutions. It is a vivid and frightening portrait of a young girl’s life on.