Southland
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781888451412
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Modern fiction; Women Authors; Mystery & Detective - General; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965; Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif; Mystery & Detective - Historical; Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction / General; Crimes against; African American teenage boys; Japanese American families
Description: Jackie Ishida, a young Japanese American woman living in Los Angeles, learns of the deaths of four young men in her grandfather's store during the 1965 Watts riot, and sets out to discover the truth about their deaths, along the way uncovering some long-buried family secrets as well.