I Love Yous Are for White People

<p><strong>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. -- <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>Heart-wrenching irreverent and ultimately uplifting <em>I Love Yous Are for White People</em> 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.</p>