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Heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting, this stirring memoir chronicles one Asian-American immigrants struggle to find himself--and to transcend the dangers of gang life in Los Angeles. n nAs a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his fathers 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. Lacs 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.n n n nHeart-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 fathers fleeting affection.n
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