The Chinatown War : Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 Costa Book Award for First Novel (2018) Then the summer before senior

Then the summer before senior year

or take drugs

bumbling through life with the feeling that an extraordinary something is waiting for him just beyond reach

this is the novel Lionel Shriver wrote directly afterwards

The Chinatown War : Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 Costa Book Award for First Novel (2018) Then the summer before seniorIn October 1871, a simmering, small scale turf war involving three Chinese gangs exploded into a riot that engulfed the small but growing town of Los Angeles. A large mob of white Angelenos, spurred by racial resentment, rampaged through the city and lynched some 18 people before order was restored. In The Chinatown War, Scott Zesch offers a compelling account of this little known event, which ranks among the worst hate crimes in American history. The