num_pages: 256
description: Mr. Lowe lives the simple and happy life of a shopkeeper. A Chinese immigrant to Jamaica in the 1890s, Lowe revels in the lush beauty of his adoptive land. But the past confronts Lowe in everything he does, and so his history reveals itself---the tale of his exile from China, his shipboard adventures, an unwanted pregnancy and the arrangement that was made to avoid scandal. The arrangement places Lowe in a marriage of convenience with a mysterious widow, Miss Sylvie.Lowe and Sylvie's relationship is complex, vivid, erotic, and full of secrets. Sylvie is a light-skinned black woman who, in the course of their three decades together, gives up three dark-skinned children for adoption. But Lowe's secret is much more startling, and remarkable..
language: English
title: The Pagoda
titlecomplete: The Pagoda
genres: LGBT, Historical, College, Read For School, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Queer, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 418
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category:  Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Ferro-Grumley Awards
publisher: Harper Perennial