Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Patsy

Nicole Dennis-Benn

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.

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ISBN 9781593765781
Genre Fiction
Publication Date 11-Oct-19
Publisher Soft Skull Press
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 192
Notes Lambda Literary Award nominee
LoC Classification PS3604.U5268 .E97 2019
Rating Good
Subject California – Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) – Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) – Social conditions – Fiction; Social conditions
BookID 15260

Author: LFWBooks