Patsy
Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.88 · 24 ratings · Published: 04 Jun 2019
Beating with the pulse of a long-witheld confession, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to choose herself first―not to give a better life to her family back home. Patsy leaves Tru behind in a defiant act of self-preservation, hoping for a new start where she can be, and love, whomever she wants. But when Patsy arrives in Brooklyn, America is not as Cicely’s treasured letters described; to survive as an undocumented immigrant, she is forced to work 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.
Expertly evoking the jittery streets of New York and the languid rhythms of Jamaica, Patsy weaves between the lives of Patsy and Tru in vignettes spanning more than a decade as mother and daughter ultimately find a way back to one another.
- lgbtq+ 3
- contemporary 3
- literary fiction 3
- women loving women 3
- protagonists of colour 3
- realistic 2
- coming of age 2
- historical fiction 2
- family 2
- on the move 2
- social commentary 1
- friendship 1
- female mc 1
- black mc 1
- city/urban 1
- action / adventure 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- audiobook 3
- book 1
- adult fiction 1
- content warnings
- mental illness 2