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Staceyann Chin's memoir is an engrossing and incredible story from the first page to the last. It is painful, thoughtful, insightful and funny. What a gifted storyteller.
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The story of a Chinese-Jamaican girl who is abandoned at birth and raised by her grandmother until she is sent to several different relatives who are abusive and often violent with her. In spite of her traumatic childhood, she immigrates to America and becomes a political activist , writer and entertainer.
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