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Event Recap: Steph Cha and the ‘Inverted Crime Novel’

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Article
https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a40316037/steph-cha-your-house-will-pay-event-recap-tod-goldberg-video/
Journal
Alta Journal
Issued Date
June 17, 2022
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
San Francisco
Book
-
Writer
Steph Cha

About the Author

  • Steph Cha
  • Birth : 1986 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : -
  • Family Name : -
  • Korean Name : Steph Cha
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
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To kick off the discussion of Steph Cha’s extraordinary novel Your House Will Pay, California Book Club host John Freeman asked Cha to speak about the book’s relationship to the real-life death of Latasha Harlins, a teenager whose killing by a Korean convenience store owner was a factor in the subsequent L.A. uprising, and the atmosphere within Cha’s own family at the time. Cha explained, “I was five in 1991, when Latasha was killed, and I was six at the time of the uprising. I grew up in the Valley, the San Fernando Valley, and kind of cut off from the stuff that was happening in Koreatown and South Central L.A.—that was not really part of my childhood or my universe.”

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