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03151aam a22005178i 4500 001 A09248F6948711E88249AF2997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190328032346 008 180227s2018 nyu 000 j eng 010 $a 2018006289 020 $a 1524799203 020 $a 9781524799205 035 $a (OCoLC)1008876270 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ORX $d OCLCF $d IEB $d JQW $d ILC $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3601.R764 $b A6 2018 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Arthurs, Alexia, $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 10 $a How to love a Jamaican : $b stories / $c Alexia Arthurs. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c 2018. 300 $a 239 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In "Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands," an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In "Mash Up Love," a twin's chance sighting of his estranged brother--the prodigal son of the family--stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In "Bad Behavior," a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In "Mermaid River," a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In "The Ghost of Jia Yi," a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in "Shirley from a Small Place," a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother's big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. 505 0 $a Light-skinned girls and Kelly Rowlands -- Mash up love -- Slack -- Bad behavior -- Island -- Mermaid River -- The ghost of Jia Yi -- How to love a Jamaican -- On shelf -- We eat our daughters -- Shirley from a small place. 520 $a This collection of short stories sweeps from close-knit island communities on Jamaica to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns. In them, Arthurs forms a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. -- adapted from jacket 650 0 $a Jamaicans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jamaican Americans $v Fiction. 941 $a 15 952 $l BEPA251 $d 20231028011529.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012031412.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909051358.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722055544.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406015216.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20190619010512.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20190323010144.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212020808.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20190103012252.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20181218010150.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107035312.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006120537.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20180822010214.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20180801011356.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180731022539.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A09248F6948711E88249AF2997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search