In 2018, down to his last $30, Y.C. Sun wrote a letter to himself. He didn't know it yet, but he was starting a conversation that would carry him through the hardest years of his life.
Through the Wire is a first-generation son's account of getting through — the lost years of gambling and dead-end hustle, the whiteboard session that turned into a prayer, the friend who called him a Chosen One while he rolled his eyes, a father's failing heart, a 30% pay cut, and a January when the hills around Los Angeles burned while his family sat in the dark.
It's also about what happened on the other side: building work that matters, retiring his parents, a clothing line that sold exactly two shirts (both to people he knew), and learning that the work nobody sees is the work that counts.
Woven between the chapters are the actual letters he wrote to himself along the way — printed exactly as he wrote them. Typos and all. They weren't written for a book. That's why they're in one.
This is a book for anyone in their own wire season: broke, doubting, working at 2 a.m. on something nobody's clapping for. It doesn't pretend the way out is quick, and it doesn't end with a mansion. It ends with a family at a table, a faith that showed up slowly, and a fire that didn't fade.
This isn't a book about arriving. It's about getting through.
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