Keep My Memory Safe
Fook Soo Am, the Pagoda
Published on 27. April 2023
198 pages
978-1-77186-324-7 (ISBN)
Description
Born in Hong Kong to unwed parents, Stephanie Chitpin was transported illegally to the Island of Mauritius by Ah Pak, head nun of a Buddhist temple with the help of Mr. Chui, a benevolent Chinese businessman. Ah Pak raised her as an orphan ward of the temple Fook Soo Am, known as the Pagoda. The scars incurred by classmates' name calling, the shame of being an orphan raised in a temple, tragic deaths, and other obstacles did not prevent her from pursuing her education in Mauritius and at university in Canada. Keep My Memory Safe poetically chronicles life in the temple and in Mauritius, and the move to Canada. This immigration story is totally unique as no other orphaned temple nuns are known to have gone on to acquire a topnotch education and become academics.
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Content
- cover
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PROLOGUE
- Chapter 1. ONE CHILD
- Chapter 2. THE PAGODA
- Chapter 3. AH PAK
- Chapter 4.KOUNG KOUNG AND OTHERS
- Chapter 5. SCHOOL!
- Chapter 6. THE CHUI FAMILY
- Chapter 7. BOIS CHÉRI
- Chapter 8. LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL
- Chapter 9. MY FIRST INTERNSHIP
- Chapter 10. MY FIRST FRIEND
- Chapter 11. LEAVING MAURITIUS
- Chapter 12. BEGINNINGS IN CANADA
- Chapter 13. REUNITING
- Chapter 14. PREMATURE
- Chapter 15. A DREAM
- Epilogue. THE RETURN
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- REFERENCES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ALSO FROM BARAKA BOOKS
