Lancement du livre/Book Launch: Keep My Memory Safe Fook Soo Am, The Pagoda, A Memoir by Stephanie Chitpin
Wed, Apr 26
|145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9A7, Canada
Keep My Memory Safe poetically chronicles life in the temple and in Mauritius, and Stephanie’s eventual move to Canada. Hers is a unique immigration story of an orphaned temple nun who has gone on to acquire a top-notch education and become an academic.
Time & Location
Apr 26, 2023, 1:00 p.m.
145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9A7, Canada
About the event
Keep My Memory Safe poetically chronicles life in the temple and in Mauritius, and Stephanie’s eventual move to Canada. Hers is a unique immigration story of an orphaned temple nun who has gone on to acquire a top-notch education and become an academic.
Keep My Memory Safe raconte poétiquement la vie dans le temple et à Maurice, et le déménagement éventuel de Stéphanie au Canada. C'est l'histoire unique de l'immigration d'une religieuse orpheline du temple qui a ensuite acquis une éducation de premier ordre et est devenue universitaire.
Stephanie Chitpin was born in Hong Kong to unwed parents. A few days later, an infant girl in a woven straw basket was transported illegally to the island of Mauritius off the coast of Africa by Ah Pak, head nun of a Buddhist temple with the help of Mr. Chui, a benevolent Chinese businessman.
Ah Pak raised Stephanie as an orphan ward…