Paper daughter

Type

Book

Authors

Jeanette Ingold

ISBN 13

9780152055073

Tags

Chinese American Families, Chinese American teenage girls, fathers, Hit-and-run accidents, journalism, Sixteen-year-old girls, Teenage Girls

Abstract

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.

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