6/22/2023 0 Comments Gloria by kerry young![]() Then her parents agree to marry her off to Chinese businessman Yang Pao. ![]() Fay is safe and relatively happy for a while, until she falls into a relationship after graduation with a British expat his return to England just before Fay’s 21st birthday is painful. Since Fay’s father refuses to protect her, she eventually comes up with the idea of becoming a boarder at her Catholic high school so she won’t have to return home. Wearied by the constant physical abuse, Fay finds her only comfort from the family’s maid, Sissy, until Sissy’s departure when Fay is 13. This pattern of violence continues throughout Fay’s childhood. When 9-year-old Fay is caught visiting one of her father’s opium dens, her mother is furious and beats her. ![]() ![]() Fay Wong, a biracial girl caught between the worlds of her Chinese father and her African mother, comes of age in 1930s Jamaica. ![]()
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