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Keep My Memory Safe - Fook Soo Am, The Pagoda (Paperback)
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Keep My Memory Safe - Fook Soo Am, The Pagoda (Paperback)
Series: Baraka Nonfiction
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Born in Hong Kong to unwed parents, Stephanie Chitpin was
transported illegally to the Island of Mauritius by Ah Pak, the
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. Encouraged by Mr.
Chui and in spite of Ah Pak's opposition, she did very well at
school. The scars incurred by classmates' name calling bastard, and
more the shame of being an orphan raised in a temple, tragic
deaths, and other obstacles did not prevent her from pursuing her
education and finishing high school at the age of 16. Although Ah
Pak had other plans for her, Mr. Chui stood by her with diplomacy
and tact throughout her school years and onto university in Canada
on a scholarship. 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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