Las Cucarachas - Tapa blanda

"With respect to Yongsoo Park's rollercoaster of a second novel, something should definitely be said about Holden Caulfield. Something like: 'Peter Kim is a modern-day, Korean-American Holden Caulfield, ' or even, 'Las Cucarachas is The Catcher in the Rye for the '80s, with significantly fewer white people.' That will really tell you what Las Cucarachas is like. That said, from the first page, Park's tough-guy-with-a-soft-center narrator Peter Kim deftly sucks you into a sweaty, adolescent world filled with Atari, The A-Team, and The Last American Virgin all splashed up against the racially jumbled backdrop of 1980s New York City."
--T Cooper, author of Some of the Parts

Life isn't easy for Peter Kim. The super and other thugs in his neighborhood are out to get him. His best friend suddenly hates his guts. And he's stuck wasting his summer babysitting his wierdo little brother. But things hit absolute rock bottom when his family's apartment gets burglarized and he loses his most prized possession. Undaunted, Peter tries to forget and move on. But his misfit friends, all members of the Warriors, just won't let him. Spurred on by their teasing and the desire to shut them up, he sets out to find out who ripped him off. What follows is an investigation like no other.