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He was promised Disneyland.He got deportation Seoul, 1991. A steel empire burns. A father vanishes. A mother sells her kidney so her six-year-old son won't be sold overseas. A grandmother's skull is shattered against concrete while the boy watches. Los Angeles, 2005. On his twentieth birthday, Michael Kim is handcuffed at LAX and forced onto a one-way flight back to a motherland that no longer exists-carrying nothing but a jade necklace forged in his family's first furnace and a rage cold enough to freeze the Pacific. American Dream in Ashes: The Descent is the explosive first book in a five-part Korean-American crime saga that readers are calling the Korean Scarface and Parasite meets Breaking Bad in K-Town You'll witness: - The exact moment a child decides to become the strongest thing left - A best friend who trades a brother for 75% of a cocaine shipment - A father who sacrificed everything-only to doom his family worse - The night an eight-year-old chooses his mother's survival over his father's voice This is not an immigrant success story. This is the autopsy of the American Dream-performed with a rusty scalpel and written in blood. ★★★★★ ""I cried on a plane, then couldn't sleep for three days. ★★★★★ ""Raw, brutal, unforgettable. Like The Godfather reborn in Koreatown."" Genres: Asian-American Literature - Crime Thriller - Coming-of-Age - Organized Crime - Immigrant Saga - Family Betrayal - Korean-American Fiction - Dark Psychological Drama Content warnings: graphic violence, child abuse, organ trafficking, gang violence, deportation, strong language, drug trade. One jade core. Four betrayals. Twenty years of ashes. The descent begins now.

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