The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La by Katz, Jesse
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La by Katz, Jesse

The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La

Tattoos on the Heart meets Ghettoside in this gripping true story about a botched gang murder set...
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Author: Jesse Katz
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The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La by Katz, Jesse

The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La

BD$42.01
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La by Katz, Jesse

The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La

BD$42.01
Author: Jesse Katz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Tattoos on the Heart meets Ghettoside in this gripping true story about a botched gang murder set in the invisible economy of LA's immigrant street vendors

Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA's most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos--so desperate that he agrees to kill an undocumented Mexican street vendor. The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang's shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a newborn instead. The overlords who rule the Lil Cycos from a Supermax prison 1,000 miles away must be placated and Giovanni is lured across the border where, in turn, the gang botches his killing. And so, incredibly, Giovanni rises from the dead, determined to both seek redemption for his unforgivable crime and take down the gang who drove him to do it.

With The Rent Collectors, Jesse Katz has built a teeth clenching and breathless narrative that explicates the difficult and proud lives of undocumented black market workers who are being extorted by the gangs and fined by the city of LA--in other words, exploited by two sets of rent collectors.

Author: Jesse Katz
Publisher: Astra House
Published: 07/16/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781662601736

About the Author
Jesse Katz spent fifteen years as a journalist at the Los Angeles Times and another nine years at Los Angeles Magazine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Details, The American Prospect, Pacific Standard, and in the anthologies Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Crime Writing. He teaches in the literary journalism program at the University of California, Irvine, and has volunteered at both Central Juvenile Hall and the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility through a nonprofit called InsideOUT Writers. He lives in Los Angeles with his son.
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