"Triplines" is a remarkable journey of a boy s maturation and winning coming-of-age novel from an author who is best nown for his crime "noir" stories. The change in genre is a surprising change for Leonard Chang. "Triplines" is autobiographical, seen through two perspectives: a young Lenny Chang and an older Chang who looks back at how the legacy of his violent father still haunts his life.

As in his past writings, Chang continues to explore the Korean American experience. He also goes back in time to a different location, the Korean immigrant sections of Long Island. He explores the immigrant experience, the presence of racism in both the white and Korean communities, the experiences in a dysfunctional family, school bullying, and the pursuit of the American dream .

Usually a loner, Lenny meets Sal, a small-time dealer Sal offers Lenny money to grow and tend a patch of marijuana. The incentive is a large sum of cash, but Lenny gets intrigued by the care and tending of the illegal plants. As the plants get taller in the summer, they set up homemade triplines to track whether anyone, including the police, come around .

The book title suggests an actual and psychological trigger effect. Remniscent of the triplines Lenny and Sal install in their marijuana field, his father s unpredictable violence was the emotional tripline the author dealt with every day of his youth. Lenny, as an adult, triggers his own recollection of earlier events, with greater understanding As an autobiographical coming-of-age novel, this is author Chang at his most introspective . --Bill Drucker " Fallout from Childhood, Korean Quarterly, Spring 2014 (Vol. 17, No. 3): pp. 53-54. ""

Triplines is a remarkable journey of a boy s maturation and winning coming-of-age novel from an author who is best nown for his crime noir stories. The change in genre is a surprising change for Leonard Chang. Triplines is autobiographical, seen through two perspectives: a young Lenny Chang and an older Chang who looks back at how the legacy of his violent father still haunts his life.

As in his past writings, Chang continues to explore the Korean American experience. He also goes back in time to a different location, the Korean immigrant sections of Long Island. He explores the immigrant experience, the presence of racism in both the white and Korean communities, the experiences in a dysfunctional family, school bullying, and the pursuit of the American dream .

Usually a loner, Lenny meets Sal, a small-time dealer Sal offers Lenny money to grow and tend a patch of marijuana. The incentive is a large sum of cash, but Lenny gets intrigued by the care and tending of the illegal plants. As the plants get taller in the summer, they set up homemade triplines to track whether anyone, including the police, come around .

The book title suggests an actual and psychological trigger effect. Remniscent of the triplines Lenny and Sal install in their marijuana field, his father s unpredictable violence was the emotional tripline the author dealt with every day of his youth. Lenny, as an adult, triggers his own recollection of earlier events, with greater understanding As an autobiographical coming-of-age novel, this is author Chang at his most introspective .

-Triplines is a remarkable journey of a boy's maturation and winning coming-of-age novel from an author who is best nown for his crime noir stories. The change in genre is a surprising change for Leonard Chang. Triplines is autobiographical, seen through two perspectives: a young Lenny Chang and an older Chang who looks back at how the legacy of his violent father still haunts his life.

-As in his past writings, Chang continues to explore the Korean American experience. He also goes back in time to a different location, the Korean immigrant sections of Long Island. He explores the immigrant experience, the presence of racism in both the white and Korean communities, the experiences in a dysfunctional family, school bullying, and the pursuit of the American dream....

-Usually a loner, Lenny meets Sal, a small-time dealer... Sal offers Lenny money to grow and tend a patch of marijuana. The incentive is a large sum of cash, but Lenny gets intrigued by the care and tending of the illegal plants. As the plants get taller in the summer, they set up homemade triplines to track whether anyone, including the police, come around....

-The book title suggests an actual and psychological 'trigger effect.' Remniscent of the triplines Lenny and Sal install in their marijuana field, his father's unpredictable violence was the emotional tripline the author dealt with every day of his youth. Lenny, as an adult, triggers his own recollection of earlier events, with greater understanding... -As an autobiographical coming-of-age novel, this is author Chang at his most introspective....-

"Triplines is a remarkable journey of a boy's maturation and winning coming-of-age novel from an author who is best nown for his crime noir stories. The change in genre is a surprising change for Leonard Chang. Triplines is autobiographical, seen through two perspectives: a young Lenny Chang and an older Chang who looks back at how the legacy of his violent father still haunts his life.

"As in his past writings, Chang continues to explore the Korean American experience. He also goes back in time to a different location, the Korean immigrant sections of Long Island. He explores the immigrant experience, the presence of racism in both the white and Korean communities, the experiences in a dysfunctional family, school bullying, and the pursuit of the American dream....

"Usually a loner, Lenny meets Sal, a small-time dealer... Sal offers Lenny money to grow and tend a patch of marijuana. The incentive is a large sum of cash, but Lenny gets intrigued by the care and tending of the illegal plants. As the plants get taller in the summer, they set up homemade triplines to track whether anyone, including the police, come around....

"The book title suggests an actual and psychological 'trigger effect.' Remniscent of the triplines Lenny and Sal install in their marijuana field, his father's unpredictable violence was the emotional tripline the author dealt with every day of his youth. Lenny, as an adult, triggers his own recollection of earlier events, with greater understanding... "As an autobiographical coming-of-age novel, this is author Chang at his most introspective...."