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Arthurs, Alexia.
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Jamaicans -- Fiction.
Jamaican Americans -- Fiction.
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Jamaicans -- Fiction.
Jamaican Americans -- Fiction.
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How
to
love
a
Jamaican
:
stories
/ Alexia Arthurs.
by
Arthurs, Alexia.
Ballantine Books, 2018.
Call #:
FICTION ART
Subjects
Jamaicans -- Fiction.
Jamaican
Americans -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781524799205 (hc.)
1524799203 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
239 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Light-skinned girls and Kelly Rowlands -- Mash up
love
-- Slack -- Bad behavior -- Island -- Mermaid river -- The ghost of Jia Yi --
How
to
love
a
Jamaican
-- On shelf -- We eat our daughters -- Shirley from a small place.
Summary:
"Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven
stories
form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In "Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands," an NYU student befriends a fellow
Jamaican
whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In "Mash Up
Love
," a twin's chance sighting of his estranged brother--the prodigal son of the family--stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In "Bad Behavior," a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In "Mermaid River," a
Jamaican
teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In "The Ghost of Jia Yi," a recently murdered student haunts a despairing
Jamaican
athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in "Shirley from a Small Place," a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother's big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital"--Publisher.
Genre:
Short
stories
.
Black fiction.
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J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library
Adult Black Fiction
FICTION ART
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