The strained L.A. landscape in stephycha's new crime thriller is immediately recognizable to anyone who lived in the city during the 1992 riots. Monday, you can talk to Steph directly about it in our live book club Q&A. Details below ⬇️
Join author Steph Cha and Joe Ide for a streaming conversation about new L.A. noir. The March 30 event will be live.
Her new thriller introduces Shawn Matthews, a black ex-convict living in Palmdale, who is still traumatized by the shooting death of his teenage sister, Ava, decades earlier. In a tragedy inspired by the Harlins case, Ava was killed by an immigrant Korean clerk who claimed the girl was stealing a drink from her store. The woman was tried, received no jail time and relocated to another part of the city, changing her name to start a new life.
The book’s other protagonist is Grace Park, a young second-generation Korean woman who works at her family’s pharmacy in the San Fernando Valley. She lives a sheltered life at home with her parents, unaware of her family’s secrets. Her placid life is soon shattered when she witnesses an ambush shooting.
In an author’s note, Cha acknowledges that Shawn Matthew’s aunt, Sheila Holloway, is based on a real-life counterpart: Latasha’s aunt, Denise Harlins, who became an activist after her niece’s death. At its core, “Your House Will Pay” is a deep dive into Los Angeles’ racial underbelly and tensions. It’s a timely book that showcases two cultures and two families forced to confront injustice, enduring anger and profound loss. Cha deftly shows how flesh-and-blood people struggle in the shadow of outsized cultural dramas and headlines that can define a city.
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