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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Dennis-Benn, Nicole.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dennis-Benn, Nicole.       by title:      Patsy : a novel / by...       by call number:      LP FICTION DEN     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

Patsy : a novel / by Nicole Dennis-Benn. by Dennis-Benn, Nicole. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019. Call #: LP 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:  9781432873936 (hc.) Edition:  Large print ed. Description:  673 p. (large print) : 23 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Large Print Fiction LP FICTION DEN Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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