Patsy, a novel, Nicole Dennis-Benn
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Patsy, a novel, Nicole Dennis-Benn
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Patsy
Oclc number
1054000541
Responsibility statement
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Sub title
a novel
Summary
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 descriptionWhen 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
Target audience
adult
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- Psychological fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Sexual minorities -- Fiction
- Women -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- Jamaicans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
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- Psychological fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Sexual minorities -- Fiction
- Women -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- Jamaicans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
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