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(More customer reviews)A perfect blending of a modern story which springs from and overlaps with a little known time in the United States (The Chinese Exclusion Act). After her newspaper-reporter father's death by a hit and run driver, 16 year-old Chinese-American Maggie Chen(narrator) discovers entries in his notebook which lead her to pry into her father's undisclosed past. Steven Chen made up grandiose stories about his upbringing to hide the fact of his lonely foster childhood. Interspersed, and in italics, is the story of Fai-yi Li, begun in 1932 and is a tale of dashed hopes following emigration to America, where, to the dismay of many, there was no `Gold Mountain'. This is a well-written page-turner with good characterization. The reader can easily get caught up in the story of Fai-yi and be literally shocked to turn the page ending up in present day Seattle! Ingold adroitly answers readers' questions about issues the story presents: the compassion of foster parents, the fast-paced world of a newsroom, political corruption, and true personalities emerging in the lives of friends.
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