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Grade school teacher and aspiring author Peregrine Long sees a Chinese family on board a ship--in his morning tea. The image inspires him to write the story of this family, but then a woman turns up at his door, claiming that he's writing her family history exactly as it happened. She doesn't like it, but she has one question: What happened to the little boy of the family, her long-lost uncle?Throughout the course of a month-long tempest that begins to wash the peninsula out from beneath them, Peregrine searches modern-day San Francisco and its surroundings--and, through his continued writing, southern China and the Pacific immigration experience of a century ago--for the missing boy. The clues uncovered lead Peregrine to question not only the nature of his writing, but also his knowledge of his own past and his understanding of his identity.
Every lover of books understands the moments when you can't put a book down, but in the closing chapters you must place it aside because you don't want the story to end.From the first paragraph of "Paper Son," I kept starting and stopping to admire beautiful collections of words and thoughts, something I haven’t done through many books I’ve read during this global pause. Within the lyrical prose, the story is incredibly down to earth, the characters charming and quite human, and the plot mystical in the way of real life, to remind the reader that sometimes the most important moments occur outside of "reality." Beyond this perilous adventure steeped in history, the author seems to reveal a portion of himself within the main character, who is also an author, and makes the stories both are writing feel even more intimate and truthful. I didn't want this story to end, but the characters will stay with me for a long while.
