Crime Novelist Steph Cha Discusses Her Book YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY
Steph Cha’s new novel, YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY, is based on the 1991 murder of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year-old black girl shot in the back of the head by Korean liquor store owner Soon Ja Du in South Central Los Angeles. The book is a fictionalized portrait of the two families impacted by the tragic murder. Cha, a Korean American writer who grew up in Los Angeles, only really learned about the L.A. Uprising and the fraught history between blacks and Koreans in South Central as an adult. In our interviewed Cha discussed her trepidation in writing a black character as a protagonist and how…
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