A Study Guide for An Na's "A Step from Heaven"
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A Step from Heaven
An Na
2001
Introduction
A Step from Heaven is a young-adult novel that follows Young Ju as she goes from being a toddler in Korea to being the older sister in a family of immigrants in America. The challenges of being separated from relatives back home, adapting to life in a new language, and starting educational and professional life from scratch would be enough to make life difficult for most families, but the Parks face additional problems. The biggest problem comes in the person of the domineering father, Apa, who drinks alcohol to excess and abuses the people closest to him. As Apa's oppressive, patriarchal position increasingly clashes with Young Ju's modern and liberal understanding of the world, tensions in the family mount, until some sort of resolution becomes absolutely necessary.
The novel's author, An Na, made her debut with A Step from Heaven in 2001 and has since written additional works oriented toward young-adult readers that have met with critical and popular acclaim. In her debut novel especially, she has in part drawn on her own experiences as a child in a family of immigrants. A Step from Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and won the Michael L. Printz Award, given by the American Library Association to the year's most outstanding youngadult novel, in 2002.
Author Biography
An Na was born on July 17, 1972, in South Korea. The experiences of Young Ju in A Step from Heaven are rooted in the framework of An Na's life, as she originally wrote many of the novel's episodes with express autobiographical intentions. For example, like her debut's protagonist, she had her hair permed before her family moved from Korea to San Diego, California. However, the fictional drama of the abusive father does not match her own family's experiences; she has related that her father was stern and had a traditional perspective, but together, despite the occasional arguments, her parents were able to adapt well to life in the United States. As a young child, An Na was already telling stories, using her stuffed animals—especially a bunny named Buggy who had half a dozen distinct personalities—to act them out. She became a devoted reader, spending hours at a time in the bathroom, the one room in her house with a lock, in order to absorb tales in