Shadows in Paradise: The Dark History of the CNMI Guest Worker Program is a non-fiction book by Kelvin Rodeo that gives the reader a brutal historical account of the exploitation of nonresident workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Rodeo's parents were Filipino immigrant workers who lived and worked on Saipan for close to twenty years. As the reader experiences this book, you can feel the influence that growing up in a multicultural community had on his life. He exposes the failures in policy that led to human's being treated as disposable labor. This brutal and devastating book fightsbto preserve the stories that are being erased from our history books and masterfully exposes the greed that systemically exploited foreign laborers.