{"id":30265,"date":"2020-06-16T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/how-to-love-a-jamaican-stories-by-alexia-arthurs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:00:41","slug":"how-to-love-a-jamaican-stories-by-alexia-arthurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/how-to-love-a-jamaican-stories-by-alexia-arthurs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Love a Jamaican: Stories by Alexia Arthurs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How to Love a Jamaican: Stories<\/em><\/h2>\n

Stories<\/em><\/h3>\n

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Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In ‘Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,’ an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. <\/p>\n

In ‘Mash Up Love,’ a twin’s chance sighting of his estranged brother–the prodigal son of the family–stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In ‘Bad Behavior,’ a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In ‘Mermaid River,’ a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. <\/p>\n

In ‘The Ghost of Jia Yi,’ a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in ‘Shirley from a Small Place,’ a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother’s big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital.<\/p>\n

In “Island” a woman contemplates the easy rightness of her first lesbian kiss. This is the lone lesbian content.<\/p><\/div>\n

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