THE PAGODA

PATRICIA POWELL

Lowe, a Chinese immigrant who fled to Jamaica in the 1890s, writes her long-estranged daughter about her life during their years apart: exile, separation from family, unwanted pregnancy and the secret arrangement made to avoid scandal -- the decades of living as husband to a light-skinned Black woman named Sylvie. An extraordinary tale of love, longing, and hidden identity.

Knopf
$23.00 hardcover

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