- Fiction, Race relations, African American teenage boys, Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly.
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About the book
- Author
- Nina Revoyr
- First published
- March 2003
- Pages
- 477
- Publisher
- akashic books, Akashic Books, Fusōsha
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9784594050085
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