Reseña del libro "All of the Above (en Inglés)"
Hoa was many things going for her: she is an extremely intelligent university student, a highly gifted athlete, and the recipient of great physical beauty. She has one attribute that is not always popular, her racial makeup. She has an African-American grandfather who married a Vietnamese woman in Saigon: Her father is a Native American by way of Chihuahua, Mexico, and her mother is mostly white. The result is a young woman who can not be easily pegged in any particular racial category, setting her apart in racially-aware America.One fateful evening her boyfriend takes her to a party hosted and attended by people of color. A skinhead gang entered the home and began shooting, killing her boyfriend as she tried to drag the wounded man to safety. The murder of a young man she had come to care for was devastating. She proved to be a highly accurate and reliable witness and despite threats she testified at the trial of two of the gang, sending them to prison for life.That very evening her father and two older brothers were murdered and Hoa was still in great danger. After selling her father's home she left California, seeking safety. After a year of hiding she began to realize that her life had ended along with those of her father and brothers. She returned to the San Fernando Valley and reentered her university, knowing it was stupid, knowing that this gang continued to want to kill her and knowing she could no longer hide.Inevitably, the gang learned that she had returned and went after her. This time, however, she was no longer an 18 year old girl, she was a year older, she'd learned martial arts and how to shoot firearms. She was emotionally isolated, and still severely wounded, but now she wanted revenge. During a day-long nightmare the gang chased her through the mountains bordering the valley. She survived but at a cost and she is again forced out of school. This gang is highly adept at surviving both the police and finding her. One evening she is kidnapped, assaulted and nearly killed. she again survives, if barely.At every turn her efforts to merely survive and gain an education are crushed, yet she manages, she finds a safe haven in Columbia University in New York, and she finds a boyfriend. Her academic focus shifted to computer sciences, a means of helping her survive, and best of all, her ambitions on the track bear fruit.Unfortunately, the leader of that gang, the one with all those computer skills was never found and he believed that if he could kill her he could rebuild his former gang.
