{"product_id":"i-love-yous-are-for-white-people-a-memoir","title":"I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The riveting opening sets the stage as the family raced to a rickety boat to escape their homeland, dodging communist gunfire as they ran . . . Su offers a compelling narrative of immigrant life, cultural dissonance and the tug of familial obligation.\" -- \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his father's head, Lac, with his family, was forced to immigrate in 1979 to seedy West Los Angeles where squalid living conditions and a cultural fabric that refused to thread them in effectively squashed their American Dream. Lac's search for love and acceptance amid poverty--not to mention the psychological turmoil created by a harsh and unrelenting father--turned his young life into a comedy of errors and led him to a dangerous gang experience that threatened to tear his life apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeart-wrenching, irreverent, and ultimately uplifting, \u003cem\u003eI Love Yous Are for White People\u003c\/em\u003e is memoir at its most affecting, depicting the struggles that countless individuals have faced in their quest to belong and that even more have endured in pursuit of a father's fleeting affection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0061543667\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780061543661\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Su, Lac\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2009)","offer_id":46291841745093,"sku":"9780061543661","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780061543661.jpg?v=1780113164","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/i-love-yous-are-for-white-people-a-memoir","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}