Gloria
By: Kerry Young
Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781408822883
Subjects: Social classes - Jamaica - Fiction; Fiction; Young women - Jamaica - Fiction; Englisch; Roman; Self-realization in women - Fiction; Social conditions; Life changing events - Fiction; Jamaica - History - 20th century - Fiction; History
Description: Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Gloria's desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own. Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening that she must reconcile with the realities of her life, her love of Jamaica and a past that is never far behind her.