Gloria

by Kerry Young

Book Overview

Finalist in Fiction for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Taking along her younger sister, she flees their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still treated as a second-class citizen. From a room in a boarding house and a job at a supply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620400758
• ISBN13: 9781620400753
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"