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Dennis-Benn, Nicole.
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Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Jamaicans -- New York -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Lesbians -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Dennis-Benn, Nicole.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Jamaicans -- New York -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Lesbians -- Fiction.
Jamaica -- Fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Patsy
: a
novel
/ Nicole Dennis-Benn.
by
Dennis-Benn, Nicole.
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Call #:
FICTION DEN
Subjects
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Jamaicans -- New York -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Lesbians -- Fiction.
Jamaica -- Fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781631495632 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
426 p. ; 25 cm
Summary:
"When
Patsy
gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything,
Patsy
wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible rekindling of their young love. But
Patsy
's plans don't include her overzealous, evangelical mother--or even her five-year-old daughter, Tru. Beating with the pulse of a long withheld confession,
Patsy
gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to choose herself first--not to give a better life to her family back home.
Patsy
leaves Tru behind in a defiant act of self-preservation, hoping for a new start where she can be, and love, whomever she wants. But when
Patsy
arrives in Brooklyn, America is not as Cicely's treasured letters described; to survive as an undocumented immigrant, she is forced to work as a bathroom attendant and nanny. Meanwhile, Tru builds a faltering relationship with her father back in Jamaica, grappling with her own questions of identity and sexuality, and trying desperately to empathize with her mother's decision. Expertly evoking the jittery streets of New York and the languid rhythms of Jamaica,
Patsy
weaves between the lives of
Patsy
and Tru in vignettes spanning more than a decade as mother and daughter ultimately find a way back to one another."--Publisher.
Genre:
Black fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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2
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