Patsy

Patsy gets her visa and heads from Jamaica to Brooklyn to catch up with her oldest friend and secret love, but finds life difficult as a bathroom attendant and nanny, while the child she left back home faces identity problems of her own. An exploration of gender, race and empowerment from the author of the acclaimed "Here Comes The Sun".

About the author

Nicole Dennis-Benn has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, MacDowell, Lambda and the Sewanee Writers Conference. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches writing. In 2018, she was named as an NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction, awarded by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Here Comes the Sun is her first novel. It won the Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.

www.nicoledennisbenn.com

Summary

From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Dennis-Benn, Dennis-Benn Nicole
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781786076564
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-656-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Caribbean islands, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary