Your House Will Pay

Los Angeles is on edge after a police officer shoots a black teenager, and the city feels as volatile as it has since the unrest of the early 1990s. Two people move through that tension with troubles of their own: Grace Park and Shawn Matthews.

Grace lives in the Valley with her Korean immigrant parents and puts in long hours at the family pharmacy. Her life is sheltered, and she is mostly unaware of what is building around her. What troubles her is at home: her sister has not spoken to their mother for two years, and Grace does not understand why.

Shawn lives in Palmdale and wants a quiet life. Years ago an act of violence broke his family apart, and since then he has had his fill of politics and protest. He would rather be left alone.

Then another shocking crime hits the city. The Park and Matthews families are pushed to face a shared history they have kept at a distance, while LA edges toward fresh violence around them.

The book is a literary crime novel told from two perspectives, one for each family. It reads as a tense, socially charged drama set in a city under strain, with old wounds driving the plot as much as the new crime does.