| Edition |
First edition |
| Description |
x, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Dreams of my grandfather -- Mothers and daughters -- Where love begins -- Growing up Williams -- Searching for Samuel Lowe -- Prosperity, family, education -- Samuel Lowe's twentieth century -- My three-thousand-year-old family : reunited at last -- Dreams of my grandfather. |
| Summary |
"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 one-hundred-year break in their family."--publsher. |
| Subject |
Madison, Paula Williams -- Family.
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Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
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African American women -- Race identity.
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Hakka (Chinese people) -- Jamaica.
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| ISBN |
9780062331632 |
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0062331639 |
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