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.

--Library Journal

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/12/2009
ISBN: 9780061543661
Pages: 249
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.32w x 0.66d
Award: San Diego Book Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2009
School Library Journal 11/01/2009 pg. 147
Library Journal Annex 05/11/2009