The Other Side of Paradise

[jamaica_dreamin]

he Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
by Staceyann Chin (Hardcover)
$24.00$9.60
In Stock.Offered by Amazon.com
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I don't know if this has been discussed here yet.
Has any one read it/

it is going on my wish list.

[Bizzy]

Re: The Other Side of Paradise

so weh de cover picture deh and de synopsis

[jamaica_dreamin]

Re: The Other Side of Paradise

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bizi_Oh_Em_Gee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so weh de cover picture deh and de synopsis </div></div>

Funny, I did not see one on Amazon.

[Nunya]

Re: The Other Side of Paradise

From Amazon (Publishers Weekly)

&quot;Starred Review. A fresh, forthright, affecting memoir by Jamaican performance artist Chin finds warmth and humor in her abject, parentless childhood. The Paradise of the title is the slum of Montego Bay, Jamaica, where Chin spent her hardscrabble adolescence, and her remarkable memoir is framed around her mother's rejection of her and her older brother, Delano, and the uncertainty about who Chin's father really was. Born to a young, street-savvy girl with a penchant for distinguished older men with money (in this case, a local Chinese businessman who always insisted he was not Chin's father), Chin spent her early years along with Delano under the care of their stern, God-fearing, illiterate grandmother. Early on, the spirited, defiant youngster learned to lie about her parentage, while the poverty and neediness of the siblings rendered them charity cases for relatives in Bethel Town and Kingston. Once, their mother came to visit them from where she lived in Montreal, Canada, though she quickly foisted them onto other relatives for good, leaving Chin, at age nine, to fend for herself in the shack of her harsh great-aunt whose boys routinely attempted to rape her. Nonetheless, Chin excelled at school, thanks to financial help from the man who refused to acknowledge his paternity, and became an emigrant success story later in New York. Her courage in coming out as a lesbian underscores her intrepidity in making this story her own.&quot;

[evanovitch]

Re: The Other Side of Paradise

so it change from di school bwoy dem to har cousin who routinely tried to rape har...she no easy...

mi wudda neva read r buy it juss because of the exaggerations she put out deh wich mek yaad look wuss dan it is an was


she can gwane go wrap rainbow colour rung harself...

come bak to seh mi did tink is har tv r some such she did haffi sell fi get money fi leff yaad...now is har fada...dis gyal need fi go siddung oneside