Аннотация
As Kwai Chang moved through the arid desert of the American West, I would move through the equally desolate ghettos of Brooklyn, and we would each search: he for his family and I for my father. . . .The middle of three sisters, Pamela is a quiet, thoughtful girl with a huge hole in her lifethe space her father used to fill before her mother kicked him out. Occasionally, Pamela conjures up Kwai Chang, David Carradines character, from the Western action series Kung Fu, to give her spiritual guidance and advice she would normally turn to her parents for. But with her father gone, her mother has fallen into a pit of confusion and mental disarray. So it is up to Pamela and her sisters, Nona and Theresa, to run the household. When their money runs out, the family must leave their beloved East New York house and move to the projects. It is a change that will alter their lives foreverand even wise Kwai Chang cannot alter their destiny. But as Pamela discovers, Everyone searches. The real challenge is in the finding and the keeping. In this powerful literary debut, vividly set in the 1970s, Bonnie Glover has written a marvelous story about a young black woman struggling to define her identityand make her family whole.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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