num_pages: 342
description: Three weeks before his 57th birthday, novelist Wayson Choy received a surprising phone call during his publicity tour: a mysterious woman told him that he had been adopted. Inspired by this astonishing revelation, this beautifully-wrought memoir reveals uncanny similarities between the colorful secrets that enrich Wayson Choy's award-winning novel set in prewar Chinatown and the subsequently discovered secrets of his own life.
language: English
title: Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
titlecomplete: Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
genres: Memoir, Biography, Biography Memoir, History, Canadian Literature, Nonfiction, Adoption, Autobiography, Asian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 299
publisher: Viking