Fiction. Asian American Studies. Yongsoo Park, award-winning author of BOY GENIUS, presents a groundbreaking, stylized masterpiece documenting the most important forty-eight hours of a twelve-year-old's life. For narrator Peter Kim, life isn't easy. The 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 weirdo little brother. But things hit absolute rock bottom when his family's apartment gets burglarized and he loses his most-prized possession. With humor and social consciousness, the novel explores Asian American culture in an urban setting. Peter Kim is a "modern-day, Korean-American Holden Caulfield"--T Cooper, author of SOME OF THE PARTS.