| I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir Contributor(s): Su, Lac (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061543667 ISBN-13: 9780061543661 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008055453 |
| Lexile Measure: 830 |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.32" W x 8" (0.46 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Su, Lac: - Lac Su received a master's degree and Ph.D., A.B.D., in industrial-organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. He is vice president of marketing for TalentSmart, a global think tank and management consulting firm, and he lives in San Diego with his wife and three kids. |