Your House Will Pay
by Steph Cha
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Pub Date 16 Jan 2020 | Archive Date 24 Jan 2020
Faber and Faber Ltd | Faber & Faber
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Description
Two families.
One desperate to remember, the other to forget.
Will the truth burn them both?
'Fresh, thoughtful, thrilling.' Ian Rankin
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.
Beautifully written, and marked by its aching humanity as much as its growing sense of dread, Your House Will Pay is a powerful and urgent novel for today.
Advance Praise
'Fresh, thoughtful, thrilling.' - Ian Rankin
‘A touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision that tore a hole through an entire city.’ – Attica Locke
'A wonderful, thoughtful and exciting debut that will stay with you.' – Nikesh Shukla
'A marvel . . . unique and totally gripping.' Michael Connelly
'Cha does a masterful job imbuing each character with nuance and care,' – Buzzfeed
'Elegant [and] suspenseful.' – New York Times
'Compelling and risk-taking... Cha is a remarkably generous writer.' – LA Review of Books
'An incisive and searing look at race relations, violence, and the intersection of disparate traumas. It's a riveting, revelatory novel-a must-read.' – Nylon
'As the action moves through SoCal's diverse and divided communities, grief, rage, repentance, duty to family and more force readers to consider all sides of complex moral issues... this is a high-stakes novel.' – L. A. Times
'Your House Will Pay never downplays the impacts of racism and trauma, but Cha's nuanced portrait of the two families in crisis sparks hope for the possibility of connection and mutual understanding, if not forgiveness.' – Pacific Standard
'Cha's ambitious tale of race, identity, and murder delivers. This timely, morally complex story could well be Cha's breakout novel.' Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
'A gripping, thoughtful portrayal of family loyalty, hard-won redemption, and the destructive force of racial injustice... A strong contender for the summer's blockbuster read.' – Booklist (Starred Review)
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780571348213 |
PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 320 |
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