Beacon Hill Boys

About this book

The long-awaited first novel about growing up Asian American by award-winning author Ken Mochizuki. Like other Japanese American families in the Beacon Hill area of Seattle 16-year-old Dan Inagakis parents expect him to be an example of the "model minority." But unlike Dans older brother with his 4.0 GPA and Ivy League scholarship Dan is tired of being called "Oriental" by his teachers and sick of feeling invisible; Dans growing self-hatred threatens his struggle to claim an identity. Sharing his anger and confusion are his best friends Jerry Ito Eddie Kanagae and Frank Ishimoto and together these Beacon Hill Boys fall into a spiral of rebellion that is all too all-American.