When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years' probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's LiteratureĪ Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2021Ī Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2021Ī School Library Journal Best Book of 2021Ī compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed.Īmerica in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S.
Winner of the 2021 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
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