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02520aim a2200445Ii 4500 001 A5E15640A17211EABF4F886D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200529010515 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 190715s2019 mdunnnn f n eng d 020 $a 1684419816 020 $a 9781684419814 035 $a (OCoLC)1108654415 040 $a APL $b eng $e rda $c APL $d RECBC $d TEF $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ny $a n-us-ny 100 1 $a Dennis-Benn, Nicole. 245 10 $a Patsy : $b a novel $h [sound recording (CD)] / $c Nicole Dennis-Benn. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [Prince Frederick, MD] : $b HighBridge Audio, $c [2019] 300 $a 14 audio discs (approximately 17 hr., 30 min.) : $b CD audio ; $c 4 3/4 in. 511 0 $a Read by Sharon Gordon. 520 $a "When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible rekindling of their young love. But Patsy's plans don't include her overzealous, evangelical mother-or even her five-year-old daughter, Tru. Beating with the pulse of a long-withheld confession, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to choose herself first-not to give a better life to her family back home. Patsy leaves Tru behind in a defiant act of self-preservation, hoping for a new start. But when Patsy arrives in Brooklyn, America is not as Cicely's treasured letters described; to survive as an undocumented immigrant, she is forced to work 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"--Container cover. 650 0 $a Self-realization in women. 650 0 $a Women. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters. 650 0 $a Jamaicans. 650 0 $a Immigrants. 650 0 $a Sexual minorities. 651 0 $a Jamaica. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.). 700 1 $a Gordon, Sharon. 710 2 $a HighBridge Audio (Firm). 941 $a 4 945 $a cdab 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804023642.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728020014.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20211020011009.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061941.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5E15640A17211EABF4F886D97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search