From San Francisco to New York, from Chicago to the book's focal point, Los Angeles, this oral history of the Korean American community includes a wide spectrum of people and their stories: a half-Korean, half-African American man addresses the friction between blacks and Koreans; a gay activist talks about homosexuality and life as the son of an immigrant shop owner; victims of domestic violence openly address this taboo subject. In all, more than fifty people--including a rapper, an array of artists, a Buddhist monk, and several fundamentalist Christians--examine where and how they fit into American society.