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Patsy

Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

Start date: October 15, 2021

Finish date: November 15, 2021

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Jun 05, 2020 Alyssa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A gritty, honest novel about motherhood, immigration, and the struggle to belong. Wonderful characters, realistic and raw.

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Feb 24, 2020 Andrea rated it really liked it

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Patsy yearns to leave her dead end job, the small daughter she loves but about whom she feels powerless and hopeless and the poverty and violence of Jamaica to join her high school friend, Cicely, who immigrated to New York a decade ago. But, when Patsy finally gets her coveted visa, leaves her daughter, Tru, with Tru's father and his wife and heads to New York, she finds the US is not a paradise and Cicely has changed in many ways. Patsy is forced to make tough choices slowly realizes she will ...more

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