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.
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..
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.
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.
As a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam.
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
