Well-known caterer and historian of the Chinese movement in Guyana, Margery Kirkpatrick, yesterday launched her second book, which is an autobiographical account of growing up in British Guiana.
The book, The Way We Were – Memories of a childhood in British Guiana, was officially launched last evening at Kirkpatrick’s home at Meadowbrook Gardens, Georgetown. It is described as a chronicle of the Chinese experience in the then colony, through the eyes of Kirkpatrick, a third-generation Chinese girl growing up in the mixed society of the 1940s.
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