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Call Number: Fiction / Cha, Steph, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Cha, Steph
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Cha, Steph	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Cha, Steph	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Cha, Steph	4-week checkout	Due 05-05-2024

"In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She's distraught that her sister hasn't spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace's understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale. But when another shocking crime hits LA, both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their history while navigating the tumult of a city on the brink of more violence"-- Amazon.com

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powerful! submitted by camelsamba on July 31, 2022, 11:10pm This is a powerful story about race and identity. As soon as I finished I listened to the last chapter again, and then the entire book. There weren't a lot of surprises in terms of the plot 'twists,' but that's not really the point of the book, so listening again helped me better recognize where the themes are weaving through.

(I learned about this book on an episode of the Code Switch podcast, and listened to the audiobook.) (Minor complaint: there are times in the audiobook when you can tell they spliced in a sentence - correcting some kind of stumble, perhaps? Jarring distraction. And early on I felt like the Korean woman was not expressive enough as a narrator, but I warmed to her.)

No easy answers, but thought-provoking and really well done. submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 20, 2023, 3:42pm A fictionalized version of a true event (a Korean shop owner killed a Black teen in LA shortly after the Rodney King beating), this novel dives into both families 20 years later. It’s brilliant. It names all the big stuff, all the small stuff, all the hard stuff, all the system stuff, and so much of the individual, personal stuff. There are no easy answers in this book, but it leaves a reader with an unsettling number of questions about how to get out of the mess we’re in. Thought-provoking and really well done.