Neither did the holy histories yield him comfort, nor the Book of Job. So, taking the Bible into his hand, he said to himself, “Eternal life is to be found somewhere in this Word of God and if it be here, I will find it, for I will read the Book right through, praying to God over every page of it, if perchance it may contain some saving message for me.” He told us that the earnest seeker read on through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and so on and though Christ is there very evidently, he could not find Him in the types and symbols. Mackay, of Hull, make a speech, in which he told us of a person who was under very deep concern of soul, and felt that he could never rest till he found salvation. Besides being a stylistically compelling coming-of-age narrative with a warm nuclear family dynamic, this will be a boon for collections in need of high-quality titles featuring contemporary Asian-American protagonists.Being one evening in Exeter Hall, I heard our late beloved brother, Mr. Vee's narrative voice is lyrical, full of witty snark and credible sophomore angst, and Holland works in an effective metaphor of unearthing family histories that may never satisfy by giving Vee a fascination with Peking Man. With his questions answered and a romance with Madison in its first blush, Vee's character arc takes a sharp and gratifying turn toward maturity. His parents' love for him and his father's goofy sense of humor ultimately rescue them all as they find Vee's grandfather (his grandmother has passed away) in a nursing home with a slim grasp on his memory, and Vee comes to understand the value of what he has rather than lamenting what he has missed.
Vee's sharp tongue and bad attitude make him hard to like at first, but it's precisely his aggressive stubbornness that enables him to break through his parents' silences and force them to tell him what he certainly has a right to know.
Vee maintains his deception until his parents agree to take him and Madison to China to see Madison's relatives and meet Vee's own grandparents. His powers of invention go even further, however, when he has his platonic-so-far friend Madison, who attends Chinese school, forge a letter from Vee's Chinese grandparents that states they want to see Vee and his father.
Both Vee's Chinese father and his Texan mother are silent about their pasts, so when Vee faces a family history assignment, the sophomore cops one off the internet, inventing a grandfather who escaped the Nanking massacre.
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