Finding Samuel Lowe
Subtitle: China, Jamaica, Harlem
By: Paula Williams Madison
Publisher: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780062331632
Subjects: Race identity; Family; Racially mixed people; Biography; African American women; Hakka (Chinese people)
Description: "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.