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I Love Yous Are for White People : A Memoir

I Love Yous Are for White People : A Memoir Paperback - 2009

by Lac Su

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Heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting, this stirring memoir chronicles one Asian-American immigrant's struggle to find himself--and to transcend the dangers of gang life in Los Angeles.

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HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title I Love Yous Are for White People : A Memoir
  • Author Lac Su
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1 Original
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0061543667I3N10
  • ISBN 9780061543661 / 0061543667
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.32 x 0.66 in (20.32 x 13.51 x 1.68 cm)
  • Reading level 830
  • Themes
    • Catalog Heading: High Interest/Low Vocabulary
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Southern California
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Curriculum Strand: High Interest/Low Vocabulary
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Refugees, Su, Lac - Childhood and youth
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008055453
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

As 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.

Heart-wrenching, irreverent, and ultimately uplifting, I Love Yous Are for White People 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.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2009, Page 0
  • Library Journal Annex, 05/11/2009, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 11/01/2009, Page 147

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