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03540aam a22004818i 4500 001 D04CE3DA4FC011EA9D2B000697128E48 003 SILO 005 20200215010012 008 190924t20192019meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019042680 020 $a 1432873938 020 $a 9781432873936 035 $a (OCoLC)1121422855 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d HBP $d BKL $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PS3604.E58657 $b P38 2019b 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Dennis-Benn, Nicole, $e author. 245 10 $a Patsy / $c by Nicole Dennis-Benn. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company $c 2019. 300 $a 673 pages (large print) : $c 23 cm 340 $n large print. $2 rda 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 witheld 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 where she can be, and love, whomever she wants. But when Patsy arrives in Brooklyn, America is not as Cicelys 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, and trying desperately to empathize with her mother's decision. Expertly evoking the jittery streets of New York and the languid rhythms of Jamaica, Patsy weaves between the lives of Patsy and Tru in vignettes spanning more than a decade as mother and daughter ultimately find a way back to one another. As with her masterful debut, Here Comes the Sun, Nicole Dennis-Benn once again charts the geography of a hidden world--that of a paradise lost, swirling with the echoes of lilting patois, in which one woman fights to discover her sense of self in a world that tries to define her. Passionate, moving, and fiercely urgent, Patsy is a prismatic depiction of immigration and womanhood, and the lasting threads of love stretching across years and oceans"-- $c Provided by publisher. 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 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220402010445.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220402010231.0 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20220401012719.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210916010214.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722062658.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200303014820.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D04CE3DA4FC011EA9D2B000697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search