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A CAB CALLED RELIABLE
By Patti Kim
it is the story of one young woman's attempt to ''span the breach between what-is and what-ought-to-be.'' For the Korean-American narrator, Ahn Joo Cho, ''what-is'' is at first dispiriting and lonely. She is 9 years old when her mother suddenly packs her baby brother into a taxi and leaves town, finally escaping what, in her parents' endless fights, her mother always calls ''a dog's life.'' Ahn Joo is left without a clue to her mother's whereabouts, caught in an unfamiliar America while still tied to an oppressive Korean tradition in which women are mainly valued for the services they provide and not for who they are or might become. She also has sole responsibility for her increasingly hard-drinking father. Initially, Ahn Joo clings to him, despite his meanness and disregard for her, fearful that he too will disappear. Then school introduces her to the power of language. As