Book
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Patsy : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION DENN (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Physical Description
426 pages ; 25 cm
Series
Summary
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.