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  • By: Kerry Young
  • Narrated by: Robin Miles
  • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)
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Gloria

By: Kerry Young
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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Summary

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 store, Gloria finds her way to a house of ill repute on the edge of the city, intrigued by the glamorous, financially independent women within.

It is an unlikely place to meet the love of your life, but here she encounters Pao, a Chinatown racketeer and a loyal customer who will become something more.

It is also an unlikely place to gain a passion for social justice, but it is one of the house's proprietors who instills in Gloria new ideas about the rights 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 has made for herself and the one that might be.Alive with the energy of a country at a crossroads, this is a story of love in many forms, and of Gloria's evolution-from a frightened girl on the run to a woman fully possessed of her own power.

©2013 Kerry Young (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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Such a GOOD read but where’s the Jamaican Narrator

I loved this book so much but many times I almost gave up in the beginning as the narrator’s accent wasn’t Jamaican, and was that of another Caribbean island. It was hard to get past it when the story and the storyteller are not from the same place, not speaking in the same voice which made it disjointed.

The narrator was amazing but not for a book that is supposedly set in Jamaica.

It’s like a book being set in England but being read by narrator that has an American accent and not a British accent. You are not transported to England you are now in America

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Enthralling

Excellent read! I felt transported to Jamaica and felt reminded of the descriptions from my parents of growing up there. A fabulous story covering so many complex subjects that impact on many people's lives, whether spoken about or kept hidden.

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Great read!!

Absolutely loved this story. Didn't want it to end. A story of the turmoils of youth and how these play into adulthood. You felt one with the character and willed her to succeed

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Superb

Just finished and what an emotional roller coaster. Pau was good but Gloria is superb. My only problem… it finishes too soon in the story.

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A painted picture

my family are from Jamaica and St Vincent and it painted a Jamaica I knew very little about other than facts I have found. This story was all heart and had me laughing and crying with Gloria.

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