Patsy

'Nicole Dennis-Benn is a treasure.' Nikesh Shukla, author of The One Who Wrote DestinyFROM AN AWARD-WINNING JAMAICAN NOVELIST COMES THIS BEAUTIFULLY LAYERED PORTRAIT OF MOTERHOOD, IMMIGRATION AND SACRIFICEPatsy yearns to escape the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised for a new life in New York and the chance to start afresh. Above all, she hopes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, and to rekindle their young love. But spreading her wings will come at a price: she must leave her five-year-old daughter, Tru, behind. And Patsy is soon confronted by the stark reality of life as an undocumented migrant in a hostile city.Expertly evoking the jittery streets of New York and the languid rhythms and lilting patois of Jamaica, Patsy weaves between the lives of Patsy and Tru as mother and daughter ultimately find a way back to one another. Daring, tender and profound, this is the story of one woman's fight to discover her sense of self in a world that tries to define her, and of the lasting threads of love stretching across years and oceans.

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

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Product details

• Authors: Nicole Dennis-Benn, Dennis-Benn Nicole
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781786077103
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-710-3
• No. of pages: 426
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Karibik, New York, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Bezug zu Schwulen, Lesben und Bisexuellen, FICTION / Literary, Lesbisch / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, USA / Roman, Erzählung, Karibik / Roman, Erzählung, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Afroamerikaner / Roman, Erzählung, Caribbean islands, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary