The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 074329291X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Staceyann Chin is a fulltime artist. A resident of New York City and a Jamaican National, she has been an “out poet and political activist” since 1998. From the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe to one-woman shows Off- Broadway to acting in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe and performing in both the stage and film versions of Howard Zinn’s Voices o
Powerful Staceyanne Chin's long-awaited memoir is, quite simply, riveting. Once I began reading, I did not want to put the book down. And when I finished it, I immediately thought, "I need to read this again." Her compelling life story is matched by her incredible writing. With this narrative of the first two decades (or so) of her life, Chin takes her readers on an emotional journey. It is the story of an individual who embodies Otherness on many levels - race, gender, class, family status, sexual orientation -. Great book BELIEVER This book was a great read. Could not put it down. I am very thankful to Miss Chin for being brave enough to write about such a sensitive matter. Abandonment by a parent is more common than we would like to believe. It takes a daily toll on our lives. I must say that I felt very emotional and a bit depressed after reading the book. It is a sensitive issue and it makes it obvious how some parents are so caught up in their own world even when their children, that they brought in the world are suffering. T. "DecentBut I Expected More" according to Jason Davenport. Interesting Perspective Of Life In JamaicaHowever I Expected MoreThe Story Just Stopped In New York
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. 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. Early on, the spirited, defiant youngster learned t
No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. But when the three were separated, Staceyann was thrust, alone, into an unfamiliar and dysfunctional home in Paradise, JamaicaTold with grace, humor, and courage, Chin plumbs tender and unsettling memories as she writes about drifting from one home to the next, coming out as a lesbian, finding the man she believes to be her father, and ultimately, discovering her voice. It was her grandmother who nurtured and protected and provided for Staceyann and her older brother in the early years. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoirNo one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. Staceyann’s mother did not want her, and her father was not present. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career