Later she became a journalist, covering such life-changing events as the People Power Revolution in the Philippines and the 40th anniversary of Kim II Sung's rule in North Korea. She wrote about her dogs and her brothers. According to her website, her first job was on a newsletter called Stork News that her little sister edited.
She had crossed a continent, had crossed cultures, had leapt over that wall.īorn in the city of Davao, in the Philippines, Candy was a writer from the beginning. But she also meant, I believe, that she had grown during that year away. She meant that he was so much taller and older.
When she returned for a visit a year later, one of those "little guys" opened the door and she didn't even recognize him and couldn't believe how much he had grown. Her two youngest brothers (she is one of six siblings) were just little guys at the time. Perhaps Candy Gourlay writes about dismantling the walls between people because she has chosen to scale them, push on them, and break them down for herself.Ĭandy tells a story about leaving Manila, where she spent much of her childhood, to live in England.
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