New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2019) dj. Hardcover - California author's highly praised fourth novel - "a taut, fictionalized account of the real-life 1991 South Los Angeles slaying of Latasha Harlins. The 15-year-old was shot by a Korean convenience store owner just two weeks after the police beating of motorist Rodney King. In Chas Los Angeles, its the summer of 2019 and racial tensions are at their zenith since the 92 rioting. This time, a police shooting involving a black teenager named Alfonso Curiel has inflamed simmering anger. Protests erupt throughout the city. Against this backdrop, the destinies of two families one African American, the other Korean American collide in a tale of a city roiled by…
New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2019) dj. Hardcover - California author's highly praised fourth novel - "a taut, fictionalized account of the real-life 1991 South Los Angeles slaying of Latasha Harlins. The 15-year-old was shot by a Korean convenience store owner just two weeks after the police beating of motorist Rodney King. In Chas Los Angeles, its the summer of 2019 and racial tensions are at their zenith since the 92 rioting. This time, a police shooting involving a black teenager named Alfonso Curiel has inflamed simmering anger. Protests erupt throughout the city. Against this backdrop, the destinies of two families one African American, the other Korean American collide in a tale of a city roiled by racism, violence and social injustice." Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 299 pp plus author's note.
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