00-00-0000 THE privy OF MY DISTRESS: THE PAGODA Patricia Powell Alfred A.

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THE privy OF MY DISTRESS: THE PAGODA

Patricia Powell

Alfred A. Knopf, 245 pp $2300

IF YOU THINK the story of the Asian Immigrant's Identity Crisis is
getting predictable, consider reading Patricia Powell's newest novel,
The Pagoda. Powell's protagonist is Mr Lowe, undivided of the few but
increasing number of Chinese immigrants in 1890 post-emancipation
Jamaica. For from one side of to the other 30 years, he has trip a small shop in a predominantly
black village with his wife, the "alabaster-skinned" Miss Sylvie.
For the serviceable of their daughter and his livelihood, and in keeping

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