When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it’s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years before for the ‘land of opportunity’.
Patsy’s plans do not include her young daughter, Tru, whom she leaves behind in a bittersweet trail of sadness and relief.
But Brooklyn is not at all what Cicely described in her letters, and to survive as an undocumented immigrant, Patsy is forced to work as a bathroom attendant, and ironically, as a nanny.
Meanwhile, back in Jamaica, Tru struggles with her own questions of identity and sexuality, grappling every day with what it means to be abandoned by a mother who has no intention of returning.
Patsy’s plans do not include her young daughter, Tru, whom she leaves behind in a bittersweet trail of sadness and relief.
But Brooklyn is not at all what Cicely described in her letters, and to survive as an undocumented immigrant, Patsy is forced to work as a bathroom attendant, and ironically, as a nanny.
Meanwhile, back in Jamaica, Tru struggles with her own questions of identity and sexuality, grappling every day with what it means to be abandoned by a mother who has no intention of returning.
Details
| Title: Patsy |
| Author: Nicole Dennis-Benn |
| ISBN: 9781631495632 |
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| Genre: Award Winner; Black Interest; Fiction |
| Subject(s): Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) – Fiction; FICTION / Literary; Immigrants – Fiction; Immigrants – Fiction. – New York (State); Jamaicans – Fiction. – New York (State); Mother-daughter relationship – Fiction; Self-realization in women – Fiction; Sexual minorities – Fiction; Women – Fiction. – Jamaica |
| Publication Date: 2019 |
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| Publisher: Liveright |
| Language: English |
| Format: Hardcover |
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| Rating: Great |
| Notes: Lambda Literary Award winner |
| Book_ID: 22414 |