Your House Will Pay

Paperback Published on: 16/01/2020
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Your House Will Pay
Incredible!
This is a gripping, powerful novel and I absolutely loved it. Loosely based on one of the events that preceded the LA '92 riots, in which a Korean shop ow... READ MORE
Helen at Scarborough
Your House Will Pay
Sure to interest fans of Black Water Rising and American Marriage
Your House Will Pay is a clear pick for fans of Attica Locke's work, who enjoy the skilled way Locke creates characters, relationships, and settings, and s... READ MORE
Jodie at Merry Hill
Your House Will Pay
Your House Will Pay
This novel is about so many things- race, family, forgiveness, secrets, grief, violence. Loosely based on real events that sparked the early 90s LA riots, ... READ MORE
Lesley at Commercial Street Dundee

Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 9780571348213
  • Number of pages: 320
  • Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 22 mm
  • Weight: 331g
  • Languages: English

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Your House Will Pay
Very relevant
This story is set in Los Angeles and is about two worlds colliding - one Korean-American family and one African-American. It is based on a true story of th... READ MORE
Celia Short
Your House Will Pay
Powerful read not to be missed
An extraordinary story about racial tensions, family conflict, revenge, and forgiveness, ‘Your House Will Pay’ follows the aftermath of a shooting in 90s L... READ MORE
Emily
Your House Will Pay
an education to read
This was something slightly different to what I normally read but having read the synopsis and having heard good things I was intrigued. It is based on tr... READ MORE
Zoe Woodend
Your House Will Pay
This should be a TV drama!
In all honesty, when I first started this book, I was close to stopping and potentially going back again later as it was very slow at the beginning. I am s... READ MORE
Rebecca Jamison