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Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old whenever a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Taking along her more youthful sister, she flees their hometown to forge a fresh life in Kingston. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still cared for as a second-class resident. From an area in a boarding house and employment at a resource store, Gloria discovers her way to a house of ill repute on the advantage of the town, intrigued by the attractive, financially impartial women within. It is an unlikely destination to meet the love you will ever have, but here she encounters Pao, a Chinatown racketeer and a faithful customer who'll become something more. It is also an unlikely destination to gain a enthusiasm for public justice, but it is one of the house's proprietors who instills in Gloria new ideas about the privileges of women and all humankind, eventually propelling her to Cuba, where even greater change is underway, and where Gloria must choose between the life she's made for herself and the the one which might be.Alive with the vitality of a country at a crossroads, this is a story of love in many varieties, and of Gloria's evolution-from a frightened woman away from home to a female fully possessed of her own vitality.
