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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.
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Fiction, romance, paranormal, general, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Fiction, family life, Fiction, psychological, LGBTQ novels, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, african american & black, women, Fiction, lgbtq+, general, Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Self-realization in women, Fiction, Women, Mothers and daughters, Jamaicans, Immigrants, Sexual minorities, Noncitizens, Illegal immigration, Literary, Mother-daughter relationship, Illegal aliens, Lesbians, Fiction, family life, generalShowing 9 featured editions. View all 9 editions?
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Patsy [large print]
2020, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Thorndike Press Large Print
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Patsy: A Novel
2020, Liveright Publishing Corporation, Liveright
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1631497898 9781631497896
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Patsy: A Novel
Jun 04, 2019, Liveright, Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
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1631495631 9781631495632
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