By Janet Kinosian
FROM: Los Angeles Times

The strained Los Angeles landscape in Steph Cha’s crime thriller “Your House Will Pay” is immediately recognizable to anyone who lived in the city during the traumatic period surrounding the 1992 riots.

A native Angeleno, Cha writes a taut, fictionalized account of the real-life 1991 South Los Angeles slaying of Latasha Harlins. The 15-year-old was shot by a Korean convenience store owner just two weeks after the police beating of motorist Rodney King. The store owner was subsequently sentenced to probation and a fine.

In Cha’s Los Angeles, it’s the summer of 2019 and racial tensions are at their zenith since the ’92 rioting. This time, a police shooting involving a black teenager named Alfonso Curiel has inflamed simmering anger. Protests erupt throughout the city.

Against this backdrop, the destinies of two families — one African American, the other Korean American — collide in a tale of a city roiled by racism, violence and social injustice. Read Rest of Review Here