People

Patricia Powell

Patricia Powell is a novelist whose fiction explores Caribbean life, migration, family, and identity.

Career

Fiction

Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage

Jamaican-American

Additional Languages

English

Pronouns

She/Her

About
Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
Jamaican-American
Pronouns
She/Her
Location
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Additional Languages
English

1998

The Pagoda

Author

Novel set in Jamaica in 1893, where Lowe, a Chinese shopkeeper, writes to his estranged daughter to explain the hidden origins of their family.