Meet the Author - Lac Su, author of "I LOVE YOUS ARE FOR WHITE PEOPLE " May 12, 2010

Join us for an evening with Lac Su, author of I Love Yous Are For White People, a memoir which traces the author's experiences as an Asian-American immigrant as well as his efforts to understand his identity and transcend the dangers of gang life in Los Angeles. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Here is some information about his book:

As a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his father's head, Lac, with his family, was forced to immigrate in 1979 to seedy West Los Angeles where squalid living conditions and a cultural fabric that refused to thread them in effectively squashed their American Dream. Lac's search for love and acceptance amid poverty--not to mention the psychological turmoil created by a harsh and unrelenting father--turned his young life into a comedy of errors and led him to a dangerous gang experience that threatened to tear his life apart.

Heart-wrenching, irreverent, and ultimately uplifting, I Love Yous Are for White People is memoir at its most affecting, depicting the struggles that countless individuals have faced in their quest to belong and that even more have endured in pursuit of a father's fleeting affection.