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Finding Samuel Lowe

Paula Williams Madison

2015275 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780062331656
  • 2015Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · 275 pages · ENGISBN 9780062331632
  • 2017HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780062331649
  • 2015Tantor AudioISBN 9781494511036
  • 2015Tantor AudioISBN 9781494561031

"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.

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