From a room in a boarding house and a job at a supply store, Gloria finds her way to a house of ill repute on the edge of the city, intrigued by the glamorous, financially independent women within.It is an unlikely place to meet the love of your life, but here she encounters Pao, a Chinatown racketeer and a loyal customer who will become something more. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still treated as a second-class citizen. Taking along her younger sister, she flees their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Finalist in Fiction for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Jamaica, 1938.
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