Gloria

By Kerry Young

Subjects: Jamaica - History - 20th century - Fiction, Self-realization in women, Young women, Fiction, general, Englisch, Fiction, historical, Self-realization in women - Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Social classes, Social classes - Jamaica - Fiction, Young women, fiction, Roman, Young women - Jamaica - Fiction, Fiction, Jamaica, fiction, Life changing events - Fiction, Social conditions, History, Life change events

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.