![]() ![]() Sybil, smart and articulate, puts a feminist spin on their situation: Slaves may be free, but women are not. ![]() Before long, she moves in with two welcoming prostitutes, Sybil and Beryl, and becomes one herself. She is rescued from the city streets by Henry Wong in his horse and buggy the unhappily married Chinese-Jamaican supermarket owner will prove her most loyal friend. Gloria is a gorgeous African-Jamaican, and the guys come swarming. (Her narration is dusted with an easily understandable patois.) It’s 1938. ![]() Take-charge Gloria and sister Marcia leave for Kingston, the capital. Her assailant, a mentally troubled coal man who lives in a shack in the country, has already had his fun with Gloria. Sixteen-year-old Gloria has just saved her kid sister from being raped. The girl swings the tree limb, again and again, until the man on the ground stops moving. The hoodlum and the whore: Those labels are accurate but inadequate for the title characters of Young’s debut Pao (2011) and this lively companion piece both are set in mid-20th-century Jamaica. ![]()
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