The Last Ship

In a moving novel that charts the fortunes of three generations of a Chinese family in the Caribbean, Jan Lowe Shinebourne explores the power of family myth, the seductiveness of invented traditions, and the way unconscious motivations seeded in painful childhood experience can resurface in adult life. For Joan Wong, growing up in a Chinese family in the political turmoil of 1960s Guyana, family history is never straightforward. There are the examples of her grandmothers—Clarice Chung, iron...