Check the GS

At an age when most kids are just getting rid of the training wheels on their bicycle Ray Shasho entered into a crazy world of secret lingo and bullying sales tactics at the Chin Lung Art Gallery his father's retail store on the corner of Thirteenth and F Street in Washington DC. <i>Check the Gs</i> is the true story of how this bizarre family business changed his world forever. Raised by a Cuban Catholic mother and Syrian Jewish father Shasho made his first sale at the age of six and never looked back. Life in the family business (and in the Shasho family) was never boring. From FBI interrogations to angry mobs each new day at the Chin Lung Art Gallery brought with it new adventures. <i>Check the Gs</i> tells a story for everyone who is proud their family and heritage but not afraid to laugh at its many eccentricities and for anyone who has ever worked in retail and experienced its humorous situations and misadventures.