Kerry Young reads from her new novel "Gloria" - a podcast by Free Word

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Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and mother of mixed Chinese-African heritage. Here she reads from her new novel, "Gloria", set in Jamaica in 1938, when a violent act forces sixteen-year-old Gloria Campbell to flee her hometown with her younger sister to forge a new life in Kingston.

Kerry comes to Free Word on the 9th of May for the Caribbean Literary Salon, to talk about Jamaican writing with Kevin LeGendre and Ronnie McGrath.

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