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Patsy : a novel / Nicole Dennis-Benn.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631495632 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1631495631 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 426 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica, only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Women > Jamaica > Fiction. Immigrants > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at GRPL.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Main | Fiction Dennis-Benn (Text) | 31307023901715 | Fiction | Available | - |
| West Leonard | Fiction Dennis-Benn (Text) | 31307023901681 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Westside | Fiction Dennis-Benn (Text) | 31307023901699 | Fiction | Available | - |
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Patsy : A Novel
Heralded for writing "deeply memorable . . . women" (Jennifer Senior, New York Times ), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine for our times: the eponymous Patsy, who leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica to follow Cicely, her oldest friend, to New York. Beating with the pulse of a long-withheld confession and peppered with lilting patois, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to love whomever she chooses, bravely putting herself first. But to survive as an undocumented immigrant, Patsy is forced to work as a nanny, while back in Jamaica her daughter, Tru, ironically struggles to understand why she was left behind. Greeted with international critical acclaim from readers who, at last, saw themselves represented in Patsy , this astonishing novel "fills a literary void with compassion, complexity and tenderness" (Joshunda Sanders, Time ), offering up a vital portrait of the chasms between selfhood and motherhood, the American dream and reality.
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