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02335aam a2200505 i 4500 001 B694C136B18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220401010114 008 190929t20202019nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1631495631 020 $a 9781631495632 020 $a 1631497898 020 $a 9781631497896 035 $a (OCoLC)1121085297 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d MNM $d OCLCO $d IH9 $d OCLCO $d DZM $d IAZ $d OCLCO $d LS@ $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3604.E58657 $b P38 2020 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Dennis-Benn, Nicole, $e author. 245 10 $a Patsy : $b a novel / $c Nicole Dennis-Benn. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, $c 2020. 300 $a 428 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes discussion questions. 500 $a "Read with Jenna"--Cover. 520 $a 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. -- adapted from jacket 650 0 $a Domestic fiction. 650 0 $a Psychological fiction. 650 0 $a Self-realization in women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z Jamaica $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jamaicans $z New York $z New York $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z New York $z New York $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sexual minorities $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Illegal aliens $x Fiction. 650 2 $a Women. 650 2 $a Women $x Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l SKPC094 $d 20240111055824.0 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20220401022738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B694C136B18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b LS@Initiate Another SILO Locator Search