On page 51 one of the few beautifully built sentences: I wondered if all the clapboard houses along the street harboured as many whispers as our home did.
Page 53 – Wong Suk beets Johnson, Number Two Boss Man.
Page 57 – reference to “real money, folding money”. I liked the image a lot.
Through the book signs, feelings, ghosts, spirits, gods of several different hierarchy levels mingle with simple superstitions conferring a Fortean atmosphere to the narrative. I find it sometimes distracting. I suppose this is not a book on Chinese beliefs on the supernatural.
Page 59 – Other distracting tool the author used: the broken English sentences. It’s very annoying.
Page 61 – “We are safe in Canada.” Sometimes I wonder if all the stories of hardships endured by immigrants in Canada are not warnings disguised in “red ribbons” like those wore by Liang. It sounds like a “brace for impact” kind of warning.
Page 63 – How easy it is to break the heart of an “almost nine years old.”
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