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Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way Out
West Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.
That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.
Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.
This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.
A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798995316947
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798995316947
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