Patsy
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Liveright; Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Published: Jun 04, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781631495632
Description: A Jamaican woman leaves her daughter behind to immigrate to New York, where the happier life she expected is difficult to find as an undocumented worker --

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. -- adapted from jacket
Notes: Source title: Patsy: A Novel