Patsy : a novel / Nicole Dennis-Benn.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 426 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781631495632
- 1631495631
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Main Library | Fiction | Dennis-B Nicole | Available | 33111009530342 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Heralded for writing "deeply memorable . . . women" (Jennifer Senior, New York Times), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine for our times: the eponymous Patsy, who leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica to follow Cicely, her oldest friend, to New York. Beating with the pulse of a long-withheld confession and peppered with lilting patois, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to love whomever she chooses, bravely putting herself first. But to survive as an undocumented immigrant, Patsy is forced to work as a nanny, while back in Jamaica her daughter, Tru, ironically struggles to understand why she was left behind. Greeted with international critical acclaim from readers who, at last, saw themselves represented in Patsy, this astonishing novel "fills a literary void with compassion, complexity and tenderness" (Joshunda Sanders, Time), offering up a vital portrait of the chasms between selfhood and motherhood, the American dream and reality.
A Jamaican woman leaves her daughter behind to immigrate to New York, where the happier life she expected is difficult to find as an undocumented worker -- adapted from jacket description.