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Kung Fu
2016
First Published
3.68
Average Rating
288
Number of Pages

Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody by following the rules. She avoids the Principal. She doesn't complain. She's loyal to her MLK 'family'. And, like 99.5% of the student body, she knows one form or another of martial arts. When Jen's world-famous Kung-Fu champion of a cousin Jimmy Chang turns up, everyone wants a piece of him - including Ridley, resident drug lord and leader of the school's most violent gang. They all want to see the legendary martial-arts master defend himself during the school's merciless initiation ritual. Except that Jimmy's made a promise never to fight again - a promise that soon leads to the murder of Jen's brother and a bloody final battle that engulfs the entire school. Fast-paced, gritty and addictive, Kung Fu by Ryan Gattis is an extreme journey into high-school violence and the American Dream that feeds it.

Avg Rating
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Author

Ryan Gattis
Ryan Gattis
Author · 8 books

Ryan Gattis is the author of Safe, Kung Fu High School, The System (July 2020), The Big Drop novellas (Homecoming & Impermanence) and All Involved, which won the Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in France. He lives and writes in South Los Angeles, where he is a member of art collective UGLARworks, a founding board member of arts non-profit Heritage Future, and a PEN America Prison Writing Mentor. For UK readers, Advanced Reading Copies of The System are now available. Please visit Netgalley UK to request one. For news, updates, & more, sign up for Ryan's monthly newsletter. ⬇️ If you have any questions for Ryan, please ask below! ⬇️

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