Your House Will Pay: ‘Elegant [and] suspenseful.’ New York Times

Author: Cha, Steph

Brand: Penguin Books

Color: Blue

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 16-01-2020

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Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget.Will the truth burn them both?'Masterful.' Ruth Ware'A smart, sensitive page-turner.' Daily MailWINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2020Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city, 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 life on the outside after years spent in prison.But something in their past links these two families. As the city around them threatens to spark into violence, echoing events from their past, 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 moving family story, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Paul Beatty's The Sellout.What readers are saying:'Simultaneously thrilling and thoughtful... a terrific, fast-moving story of two characters trying to live with the truth.''A must-read.''This novel is wonderful... it will stick with you.''Sensitive and astute, it's a book we need right now, and it's a book that lingers, offering plenty to think about.''A smart, powerful, fully-engaged book that never once blinks or backs down or takes an easy out, and then nails one of the best endings I've ever read.'
Review
Cha is a talented storyteller, feeding us information gradually as the suspense builds towards uncomfortable revelations and events. ―
Sunday Times

A nuanced and convincing portrait of two communities at loggerheads. Cha does not shy away from moral ambiguity as she explores cultural burdens, anger and unintended consequences. ―
Guardian

A smart, sensitive page-turner. in which drip-fed detail detonates with maximal impact, this terrific novel probes the way politicised rhetoric about race can fail to live up to the messiness of real-life experience. ―
Daily Mail

The plotting is immaculate, but it is as a sensitive study of a killer, a victim and their families that the novel grips. ―
Telegraph

Elegant [and] suspenseful. ―
New York Times

Ambitious, accomplished and remarkably compelling... A book with the courage to leave the answers to its most daunting questions up to the reader. ―
Wall Street Journal

[A] mesmerisingly brilliant first novel. The narrative artistry of the book, borrowing techniques from William Faulkner, is virtuoso. This is simply a brilliant book which, genre fiction or no, deserves to be on the Booker shortlist. -- A. N. Wilson ―
The Tablet

Fantastic. ―
Big Issue

A novel full of wisdom, humanity and hope. ―
The Scotsman

A huge hit in the US. Bubbling with tension and a page-turning narrative, this is the sort of book you need to pick up on a quiet weekend then just revel in Cha's ability to tell a story and unpick the knotty violence of race relations in LA. ―
Stylist

Deftly written . The deadly consequences of racial tensions make for stark reading in this tale of two families united forever by a random act of violence. ―
Irish Times

As the action moves through SoCal's diverse and divided communities, grief, rage, repentance, duty to family and more force readers to consider all sides of complex moral issues... this is a high-stakes novel. ―
L. A. Times

Superb - and sure to be among 2020's best. ―
New Zealand Herald

Compelling and risk-taking... Cha is a remarkably generous writer. ―
LA Review of Books

Cha does a masterful job imbuing each character with nuance and care ―
Buzzfeed

An incisive and searing look at race relations, violence, and the intersection of disparate traumas. It's a riveting, revelatory novel-a must-read. ―
Nylon


Your House Will Pay never downplays the impacts of racism and trauma, but Cha's nuanced portrait of the two fa

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