{"product_id":"i-love-yous-are-for-white-people-a-memoir-isbn-9780061543661","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 | \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 | \u003cp\u003e“In I Love Yous Are for White People, Lac Su has given us the ultimate in memoir. A remarkable story full of sweetness, pain, but most of all, hope.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTish Cohen, author of Town House and Inside Out Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Haunting, brutal . . . From molestation and abuse to gang banging and armed robbery, [Su] spares no detail in his memoir – and he doesn’t regret sharing any of it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving. . . . Anyone who wonders what obstacles an immigrant must overcome will be fascinated by this assimilation story; Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior complements it nicely. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lac Su’s extraordinary story of exile – from a country, a family, and ultimately from himself – is both a heart-wrenching and immensely entertaining read. Lac is a master storyteller, and each scene is like a Wes Anderson film – quirky, moving, surprising. The more I read, the more I fell in love with this vulnerable and hurting, but also resourceful and self-sustaining, boy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKerry Cohen, author of Loose Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I Love Yous are for White People is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. A breath-taking journey about beauty and love.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDave Pelzer, author of A Child Called It and recipient of the National Jefferson Award\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887840030949,"sku":"NP9780061543661","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061543661.jpg?v=1730227570","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/i-love-yous-are-for-white-people-a-memoir-isbn-9780061543661","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}