224 pages
English language
Published Jan. 13, 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Paper Daughter
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When her father, a respected journalist in Seattle, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Maggie Chen, a high school intern at her father's newspaper, searches for clues to the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, an investigation that forces her to confront her ethnicity and a family she never knew. Includes historical notes on Chinese immigration to the United States, "paper sons," and the Exclusion Era laws.
Subjects
- Chinese americans, fiction
- Identity, fiction
- Journalism, fiction
- Mystery and detective stories
- Seattle (wash.), fiction
- Children's fiction