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Patsy : a novel / Nicole Dennis-Benn.
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.
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
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631495632
- ISBN: 1631495631
- Physical Description: 426 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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| Burlington Public Library | F DENNIS BENN | 39851001513994 | Adult Fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |