Paper Daughther by Jeanette Ingold

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: April 2010

Maggie Chen was born with ink in her blood. Her journalist father has fired her imagination with the thrill of the newsroom. But now Maggie’s father has been killed, and she is determined to keep their dreams alive by interning at the local newspaper.

While assisting on her first story, suspicion of illegal activity falls on Maggie’s father, and she knows she must clear his name. Drawn to Seattle’s Chinatown, what she finds is far from what she expected: secrets, lies, and a connection to the Chinese Exclusion Era. Using all of her newspaper instincts and resources, Maggie is forced to confront her ethnicity—and a family she never knew.

To be honest: I expected a bit more of Paper Daughters. I expected that this would be a great book between cultures. Somehow the story didn't get me. It was all okay to read, but not a page turner that made me curious for what was coming next.
The story in the story, of the history of Fai-ji Li was just confusing. I on firsthand couldn't get into who this Fai-Ji Li was and how he was related to Maggie's father. At the end this was revealed ofcourse, but it still left me with too many question marks after reading it