"Paper Shadows" as a matter of fact have more meaning for me after I read it. This autobiography is full of phantoms and secrets especially the haunted memoir. It was so interesting because the author in the story as Sonny Choy has explored not only the childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown but also the family history. Choy has frequently mentioned the ghost at the early age around four. The reason for him to talk about this …showed first 75 words of 418 total…

…showed last 75 words of 418 total…eventually since he ensure the fact that his mother already died and said "All lives are ten times ten thousand secrets. Even those who are quite sure of themselves, they, too, are made up of mystery, defined by secrets told and untold." (Choy Wayson, Paper Shadows, Penguin Group, 1999, P.338) Sonny as a Chinese Canadian is so successful for his whole life, struggling from the childhood to fifty-seventh birthday that he discovered he had been adopted.