Paula Williams Madison Finding Samuel Lowe

China, Jamaica, Harlem

This powerful debut tells the story of Paula Williams Madison's Chinese grandfather, Samuel Lowe. He became romantically involved with a Jamaican woman, Paula's grandmother, and they lived together modestly with their daughter in his Kingston dry goods store, Chiney Shop. In 1920 his Chinese soon-to-be wife arrived to set up a "proper" family. When he requested to take his three-year-old daughter with him, Paula's jealous grandmother made sure that Lowe never saw his child again. That began an almost...

Engels | 275 pagina's | Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY | 2015

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