VANCOUVER — Wayson Choy, the celebrated author of “The Jade Peony” and a powerful voice for the Chinese-Canadian community, has died. His agent Denise Bukowski announced his death on Twitter on Sunday ...

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.