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Author:

Dennis-Benn, Nicole, author.

Title:

Patsy : a novel / Nicole Dennis-Benn.

Publisher:

Liveright Publishing Corporationa division of W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

428 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Self-realization in women--Fiction.
Women--Jamaica--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Jamaicans--New York--New York--Fiction.
Immigrants--New York--New York--Fiction.
Sexual minorities--Fiction.
Illegal aliens--Fiction.
Women.
Women--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

Notes:

Includes discussion questions. "Read with Jenna"--Cover.

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. -- adapted from jacket

ISBN:

1631495631
9781631495632
1631497898
9781631497896

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1121085297

Locations:

SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)