{"id":42043,"date":"2015-07-28T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42043"},"modified":"2015-07-29T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:50:16","slug":"long-time-no-see-a-memoir-of-fathers-daughters-and-games-of-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42043","title":{"rendered":"Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.periscopebooks.co.uk\/long-time-no-see\/\" target=\"_blank\">Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.periscopebooks.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Periscope<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-24<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\n204mm x 138mm<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781859643969<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hannahlowe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Lowe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.periscopebooks.co.uk\/long-time-no-see\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.periscopebooks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LTNS_new-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Lowe\u2019s father \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25571\" target=\"_blank\">Chick<\/a>\u201d, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family \u2013 except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_London\" target=\"_blank\">East London<\/a> to win at cards or dice, returning during the daylight hours to greet the daughter whose love and respect he courted.<\/p>\n<p>In this poignant memoir, Lowe calls forth the unstable world of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Card_sharp\" target=\"_blank\">card sharps<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confidence_trick\" target=\"_blank\">confidence men<\/a> and small-time criminals that eventually took its toll on Chick. She also evokes her father\u2019s Jamaica, where he learned his formidable skills, and her own coming of age in a changing Britain.<\/p>\n<p><em>Long Time No See<\/em> speaks eloquently of love and its absence, regret and compassion, and the struggle to know oneself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance Periscope 2015-07-24 336 pages 204mm x 138mm Paperback ISBN: 9781859643969 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe\u2019s father \u201cChick\u201d, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family \u2013 except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,21,8,15,10],"tags":[12141,80,20556],"class_list":["post-42043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-uk","tag-hannah-lowe","tag-jamaica","tag-periscope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42064,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42043\/revisions\/42064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}