215 pages
English language
Published Jan. 13, 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
215 pages
English language
Published Jan. 13, 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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.