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\r\n\r\nWhen Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it\u2019s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years before for the \u2018land of opportunity\u2019.
Patsy\u2019s 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.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n
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Title: <\/strong>\u00a0Patsy<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Author: <\/strong>\u00a0Nicole Dennis-Benn<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
ISBN: <\/strong>\u00a09781631495632<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Subtitle: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Series: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Genre: <\/strong>\u00a0Award Winner; Black Interest; Fiction<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Subject(s): <\/strong>\u00a0Brooklyn (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<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Publication Date: <\/strong>\u00a02019<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Original Publication Date: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Publisher: <\/strong>\u00a0Liveright<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Language: <\/strong>\u00a0English<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Format: <\/strong>\u00a0Hardcover<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Pages: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Rating: <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Great<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Notes: <\/strong>\u00a0Lambda Literary Award winner<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Book_ID: <\/strong>\u00a022414<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it\u2019s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years before for the \u2018land of opportunity\u2019.
Patsy\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4330,4315,4318],"tags":[],"pub_year":[],"class_list":["post-30637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award-winner","category-black-interest","category-fiction"],"yoast_head":"\nPatsy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it\u2019s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret…\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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