{"id":34080,"date":"2013-10-03T23:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34080"},"modified":"2019-06-03T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:59:45","slug":"the-counterfeit-family-tree-of-vee-crawford-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34080","title":{"rendered":"The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Counterfeit-Family-Tree-of-Vee-Crawford-Wong\/L-Tam-Holland\/9781442412644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 2013<br \/>\n368 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9781442412644<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9781442412668<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lindsaytamholland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L. Tam Holland<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Counterfeit-Family-Tree-of-Vee-Crawford-Wong\/L-Tam-Holland\/9781442412644 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net\/book_images\/cvr9781442412644_9781442412644_hr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hysterically funny debut novel about discovering where you come from\u2014even if you have to lie to get there.<\/p>\n<p>When Vee Crawford-Wong\u2019s history teacher assigns an essay on his family history, Vee knows he\u2019s in trouble. His parents\u2014Chinese-born dad and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a>-bred Mom\u2014are mysteriously and stubbornly close-lipped about his ancestors. So, he makes it all up and turns in the assignment. And then everything falls apart.<\/p>\n<p>After a fistfight, getting cut from the basketball team, offending his best friend, and watching his grades plummet, one thing becomes abundantly clear to Vee: No one understands him! If only he knew where he came from\u2026 So Vee does what anyone in his situation would do: He forges a letter from his grandparents in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a>, asking his father to bring their grandson to visit. Astonishingly, Vee\u2019s father agrees. But in the land of his ancestors, Vee learns that the answers he seeks are closer to home then he could have ever imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hysterically funny debut novel about discovering where you come from\u2014even if you have to lie to get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,8,15,20],"tags":[221,16010,16011,10517],"class_list":["post-34080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-china","tag-l-tam-holland","tag-lindsay-tam-holland","tag-simon-schuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58253,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions\/58253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}