Life hits rock bottom for 12-year-old Peter Kim when his family's apartment gets burglarized and he loses his most-prized possession, an Apple computer.Las Cucarachasdocuments the most important 48 hours of a young urban boy's life. "Park has created an Asian Candide, satirizing political and national fanaticism." --fromTen Magazinereview ofBoy Genius Yongsoo Park is a novelist, filmmaker and playwright. His debut novelBoy Genius was recognized as a Notable Title for the 2002 Kiriyama Book Prize and as a finalist for the 2003 Asian American Literary Awards. A former Van Lier Fellowship winner at the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Park was born in South Korea and now lives in Harlem with his wife.