{"product_id":"9781552453063","title":"Chinkstar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKWONG WAS A GOD.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eEverything was about to change. In less than forty-eight hours, guy’d be taking the stage in Van City, owning an audience meant for some all-hype-no-talent new-money rapper, spitting next-level truths that’d have a\u0026amp;rs scrapping for him coast to coast.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe’d ink some paper and drop an album that the world didn’t even know it had been waiting for. All with game and swag to spare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the kids gathered out there in the bush somewhere between Township Road 382 and the United States of mtv, this man was god. Chi-rhyme, nip-hop, zippa-flow, slanty, jaunedell, chinksta: all planets in a system revolving around its rising son, King Kwong, my brother. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinksta rap is all the rage in Red Deer, Alberta. And the king of Chinksta is King Kwong, Run’s older brother. Run isn’t a fan of Kwong’s music – or personality, really. But when Kwong goes missing just days before his crowning performance and their mom gets wounded by a stray bullet, Run finds himself, with his sidekick, Ali, in the middle of a violent battle between Red Deer’s rival gangs – the Apes and the Necks – on the run from his crush’s behemoth brother, and rethinking his feelings about his family and their history, his hatred of rice-rap and what it means to be Asian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathan Chan Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Red Deer, Alberta, and lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto's MA creative writing program, and his work has been featured in \u003ci\u003eRicepaper\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035527102704,"sku":"9781552453063","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552453063_p0.jpg?v=1763751611","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552453063","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}