Finding Samuel Lowe
China, Jamaica, Harlem

I found so much of this informative and eye opening. I loved learning the history of Chinese migrants in Jamaica and what their experiences were like, especially in terms of race relations in the country. The story of Samuel Lowe’s various wives, children, and families is fascinating, and I wish the......more

*I am not assigning star ratings in 2019 as a personal experiment* Read this book as part of the Silicon Valley Reads program at my library. Was fortunate to see the author speak; she included a lot of general history about the Hakka people that wasn't in the book, so that was interesting and added t......more

Loved it! Fascinating. Looking for her grandfather, who left her mother when she was three, made trips from Jamaica to China and finally settled there. She researched, interviewed and met with relatives until she uncovered many stories.......more

Interesting story of one woman’s quest to find her roots but it is also, hidden in her story, is a very readable history of Jamaica and China’s connections. The author recounts how these histories are interconnected and then brings the connections back full circle to explain how Chinese are returnin......more

Interesting to learn about the Chinese in Jamaica. As with many books written around genealogy, the story is most interesting to those it directly impacts. I found it dragged a bit in the second half.......more