American Dream in Ashes

He was promised Disneyland.He got deportationSeoul, 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-TownYou'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 voiceThis 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 DramaContent 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.