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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Shoot them mother-fucken dice, nigga!' Big Sean urged. 'You over here procrastinating, knowin' you finna crap out, little nigga.'That is how you survive in the Evergreen Circle complex. You talk fast, you move faster, and you never let them see what you are really feeling. For Kao, a young Mien refugee still learning English, Sacramento in the summer of 1995 is not just a city. It is a battlefield where cultures crash together, loyalties are tested in blood, and the line between making it and losing everything comes down to one wrong roll of the dice.Kao is not a gangster. He is a kid who got dropped into a world that does not care about where he came from or what he has survived. Refugee camps, a father killed before he could walk, a language that still trips on his tongue. But the streets do not wait for you to figure yourself out. They pull you in with dice games and dollar bets, with Big Sean talking trash and Ray cracking skulls to keep his crew in line. They hold you with the smell of Miss Zen's beef skewers on a warm night, with the laughter of kids playing Spot the Dom-mou, with the loyalty of friends like Bubba who would give you the last plate off their family's table even when welfare checks barely stretch past the 13th.Then the violence comes, and it does not leave. Carlo gets murdered. Lo and Billy get shot. KeeJohnny, one of Kao's closest allies, is killed. Big Sean's grip on the neighborhood tightens and then collapses in on itself. Jason goes on the run. Ray, the toughest person Kao knows, falls for a young widow named Rosie and begins to imagine a life beyond the chaos. And Katherine, a girl from a world so different it might as well be another planet, walks into Kao's life and shows him what it looks like when someone believes you deserve something better.But Sacramento in the 90's is not a place that hands out second chances easily. The cops are circling. The bodies are stacking. And Kao is driving down I-50 with blood running from his nose, his vision fading to black, and a story that is only just beginning.This is Volume 1 of a raw, unflinching memoir that reads like the streets themselves are telling it. Kao Saeteurn does not clean up the language, soften the violence, or romanticize the struggle. He puts you on the curb at Evergreen Circle and makes you feel every dice roll, every gunshot, every quiet moment of tenderness that somehow survives in a place designed to crush it.Best for readers who love gritty, voice-driven memoirs. If you are drawn to stories of refugee survival, street life, culture clashes, and the stubborn will to keep walking when nobody is holding your hand, this book was written for you.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Shoot them mother-fucken dice, nigga!' Big Sean urged. 'You over here procrastinating, knowin' you finna crap out, little nigga.'That is how you survive in the Evergreen Circle complex. You talk fast, you move faster, and you never let them see what you are really feeling. For Kao, a young Mien refugee still learning English, Sacramento in the summer of 1995 is not just a city. It is a battlefield where cultures crash together, loyalties are tested in blood, and the line between making it and losing everything comes down to one wrong roll of the dice.Kao is not a gangster. He is a kid who got dropped into a world that does not care about where he came from or what he has survived. Refugee camps, a father killed before he could walk, a language that still trips on his tongue. But the streets do not wait for you to figure yourself out. They pull you in with dice games and dollar bets, with Big Sean talking trash and Ray cracking skulls to keep his crew in line. They hold you with the smell of Miss Zen's beef skewers on a warm night, with the laughter of kids playing Spot the Dom-mou, with the loyalty of friends like Bubba who would give you the last plate off their family's table even when welfare checks barely stretch past the 13th.Then the violence comes, and it does not leave. Carlo gets murdered. Lo and Billy get shot. KeeJohnny, one of Kao's closest allies, is killed. Big Sean's grip on the neighborhood tightens and then collapses in on itself. Jason goes on the run. Ray, the toughest person Kao knows, falls for a young widow named Rosie and begins to imagine a life beyond the chaos. And Katherine, a girl from a world so different it might as well be another planet, walks into Kao's life and shows him what it looks like when someone believes you deserve something better.But Sacramento in the 90's is not a place that hands out second chances easily. The cops are circling. The bodies are stacking. And Kao is driving down I-50 with blood running from his nose, his vision fading to black, and a story that is only just beginning.This is Volume 1 of a raw, unflinching memoir that reads like the streets themselves are telling it. Kao Saeteurn does not clean up the language, soften the violence, or romanticize the struggle. He puts you on the curb at Evergreen Circle and makes you feel every dice roll, every gunshot, every quiet moment of tenderness that somehow survives in a place designed to crush it.Best for readers who love gritty, voice-driven memoirs. If you are drawn to stories of refugee survival, street life, culture clashes, and the stubborn will to keep walking when nobody is holding your hand, this book was written for you.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. That is how you survive in the Evergreen Circle complex. You talk fast, you move faster, and you never let them see what you are really feeling. For Kao, a young Mien refugee still learning English, Sacramento in the summer of 1995 is not just a city. It is a battlefield where cultures crash together, loyalties are tested in blood, and the line between making it and losing everything comes down to one wrong roll of the dice.Kao is not a gangster. He is a kid who got dropped into a world that does not care about where he came from or what he has survived. Refugee camps, a father killed before he could walk, a language that still trips on his tongue. But the streets do not wait for you to figure yourself out. They pull you in with dice games and dollar bets, with Big Sean talking trash and Ray cracking skulls to keep his crew in line. They hold you with the smell of Miss Zen's beef skewers on a warm night, with the laughter of kids playing Spot the Dom-mou, with the loyalty of friends like Bubba who would give you the last plate off their family's table even when welfare checks barely stretch past the 13th.Then the violence comes, and it does not leave. Carlo gets murdered. Lo and Billy get shot. KeeJohnny, one of Kao's closest allies, is killed. Big Sean's grip on the neighborhood tightens and then collapses in on itself. Jason goes on the run. Ray, the toughest person Kao knows, falls for a young widow named Rosie and begins to imagine a life beyond the chaos. And Katherine, a girl from a world so different it might as well be another planet, walks into Kao's life and shows him what it looks like when someone believes you deserve something better.But Sacramento in the 90's is not a place that hands out second chances easily. The cops are circling. The bodies are stacking. And Kao is driving down I-50 with blood running from his nose, his vision fading to black, and a story that is only just beginning.This is Volume 1 of a raw, unflinching memoir that reads like the streets themselves are telling it. Kao Saeteurn does not clean up the language, soften the violence, or romanticize the struggle. He puts you on the curb at Evergreen Circle and makes you feel every dice roll, every gunshot, every quiet moment of tenderness that somehow survives in a place designed to crush it.Best for readers who love gritty, voice-driven memoirs. If you are drawn to stories of refugee survival, street life, culture clashes, and the stubborn will to keep walking when nobody is holding your hand, this book was written for you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. "Shoot them mother-fucken dice, nigga!" Big Sean urged. "You over here procrastinating, knowin' you finna crap out, little nigga."That is how you survive in the Evergreen Circle complex. You talk fast, you move faster, and you never let them see what you are really feeling. For Kao, a young Mien refugee still learning English, Sacramento in the summer of 1995 is not just a city. It is a battlefield where cultures crash together, loyalties are tested in blood, and the line between making it and losing everything comes down to one wrong roll of the dice.Kao is not a gangster. He is a kid who got dropped into a world that does not care about where he came from or what he has survived. Refugee camps, a father killed before he could walk, a language that still trips on his tongue. But the streets do not wait for you to figure yourself out. They pull you in with dice games and dollar bets, with Big Sean talking trash and Ray cracking skulls to keep his crew in line. They hold you with the smell of Miss Zen's beef skewers on a warm night, with the laughter of kids playing Spot the Dom-mou, with the loyalty of friends like Bubba who would give you the last plate off their family's table even when welfare checks barely stretch past the 13th.Then the violence comes, and it does not leave. Carlo gets murdered. Lo and Billy get shot. KeeJohnny, one of Kao's closest allies, is killed. Big Sean's grip on the neighborhood tightens and then collapses in on itself. Jason goes on the run. Ray, the toughest person Kao knows, falls for a young widow named Rosie and begins to imagine a life beyond the chaos. And Katherine, a girl from a world so different it might as well be another planet, walks into Kao's life and shows him what it looks like when someone believes you deserve something better.But Sacramento in the 90's is not a place that hands out second chances easily. The cops are circling. The bodies are stacking. And Kao is driving down I-50 with blood running from his nose, his vision fading to black, and a story that is only just beginning.This is Volume 1 of a raw, unflinching memoir that reads like the streets themselves are telling it. Kao Saeteurn does not clean up the language, soften the violence, or romanticize the struggle. He puts you on the curb at Evergreen Circle and makes you feel every dice roll, every gunshot, every quiet moment of tenderness that somehow survives in a place designed to crush it.Best for readers who love gritty, voice-driven memoirs. If you are drawn to stories of refugee survival, street life, culture clashes, and the stubborn will to keep walking when nobody is holding your hand, this book was written for you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds out.That decision sets the pattern for everything that follows. Kao sells crack, carries a pager, and earns his place among older men who call him little brother, inside an apartment complex ruled by a man everyone knows as the king. The Mien families around him keep their doors shut and their curtains drawn. They came here to escape a war and found another one.Then he meets Katherine, a white girl from a part of the city he did not know existed, ten minutes and a whole world away from the floors he sleeps on. She shows him river streets, a university, a version of his own life he had never been offered. Loving her costs him something with everyone he answers to.This volume moves from a shooting in a driveway to a body in a dumpster, through jungle memories, hospital rooms, betrayals between blood brothers, and a Bay Area run that goes wrong. Underneath it runs a harder question than survival: whether a boy who was taught that the world only respects violence can put it down and still be someone.A memoir about immigration, addiction, loyalty, and the narrow distance between the life you inherit and the one you choose. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…