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Author/Guide: Steph Cha

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1990s: A novel which explores the riots of the 1990s

ISBN: B07TYGZMWT
Genre: Fiction, Inspired by true events

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What you need to know before your trail

Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city – Los Angeles – but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn’t normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister’s estrangement from their Korean-immigrant parents, Shawn tries to help his cousin Ray readjust to city life after years spent in prison.

But something in their past links these two families. As the city around them threatens to erupt into violence, echoing the worst days of the early 1990s, the lives of Grace and Shawn are set to collide in ways which will change them all forever.

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See the city of Los Angeles through the riots

This novel is a look at the city of Los Angeles at the time of the riots in 1991. It it set in 2019 but looks at the death of an African-American girl Ava Matthews (based on the real life case of Latasha Harlins) She was shot in the head by the owner of a Korean convenience store (as in the original case). This took place two weeks after the beating of Rodney King

What followed both of these incidents was a city which blew up into riots. Riots which destoryed and controlled the city. Issues which affected the entire population. Consequences which rippled outwards and had unforseen affects.