It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Paper Shadows by Wayson Choy
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1995, during the publicity tour for his much-acclaimed first novel, "The Jade Peony," Wayson Choy received a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming to have just seen his mother on a streetcar. He politely informed the caller that she must be mistaken, since his mother had died long ago. "No, no, not that mother," the voice insisted. "Your real mother." Inspired by the startling realization that, like many children of Chinatown, he had been adopted, Choy constructs a vivid and moving memoir that reveals uncanny similarities between his award-winning first novel and the newly discovered...
Paper Shadows by Wayson Choy is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.
This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Paper Shadows aloud.
Paper Shadows is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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