One legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad was a one-legged sailor named Peg Leg Joe. He hired himself out to plantation owners as a handyman. Then he made friends with the slaves and taught them what seemed a harmless folk song 'follow the drin
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," …