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Patsy : a novel / Nicole Dennis-Benn.
Van Pelt Library PS3604.E58657 P38 2019
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LIBRA PS3604.E58657 P38 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dennis-Benn, Nicole, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-realization in women--Fiction.
- Self-realization in women.
- Sexual minorities.
- Immigrants.
- Jamaicans.
- Women.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Jamaica.
- Women--Jamaica--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Jamaicans--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Sexual minorities--Fiction.
- Undocumented immigrants--Fiction.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Medical Subjects:
- Women.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- LGBTQ+ fiction
- Physical Description:
- 426 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- 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 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
- Notes:
- Stonewall Honor Books in Literature, Winner, 2020
- Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Fiction, Winner, 2020
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781631495632
- 1631495631
- OCLC:
- 1054000541
- Publisher Number:
- 99981101058
- 99987197219
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