


When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years' probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz.

Anti-Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S.
