Patsy : a novel /

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, she looks forward leaving Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where they were raised. Her plans don't include her overzealous, evangelical mother, or her own five-year-old daughter, Tru. When Patsy arrives in Brooklyn, she s...

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Main Author:	Dennis-Benn, Nicole (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Self-realization in women > Fiction. Women > Jamaica > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Jamaicans > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Sexual minorities > Fiction. FICTION / Literary.

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Summary:	When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, she looks forward leaving Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where they were raised. Her plans don't include her overzealous, evangelical mother, or her own five-year-old daughter, Tru. When Patsy arrives in Brooklyn, she survives as an undocumented immigrant, working as a bathroom attendant and nanny. Meanwhile, Tru builds a faltering relationship with her father back in Jamaica, grappling with her own questions of identity and sexuality, and trying desperately to empathize with her mother's decision.
Physical Description:	426 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	9781631495632 1631495631