WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
"[A] suspense-filled page-turner." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of
the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer
"A touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second
decision." --Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird,
Bluebird
**A Best Book of the Year
**Wall Street Journal * Chicago Tribune * Buzzfeed
* South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel * Book Riot * LitHub
A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in Los Angeles,
following two families--one Korean-American, one
African-American--grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime
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.
