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” Patsy ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Heralded for writing “deeply memorable women” (Jennifer Senior, New York Times), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine for our times: the eponymous Patsy, who leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica to follow Cicely, her oldest friend, to New York. Beating with the pulse of a long-withheld confession and peppered with lilting patois, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to love whomever she chooses, bravely putting herself first. But to survive as an undocumented immigrant, Patsy is forced to work as a nanny, while back in Jamaica her daughter, Tru, ironically struggles to understand why she was left behind. Greeted with international critical acclaim from readers who, at last, saw themselves represented in Patsy, this astonishing novel “fills a literary void with compassion, complexity and tenderness” (Joshunda Sanders, Time), offering up a vital portrait of the chasms between selfhood and motherhood, the American dream and reality.

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The daughter’s story doesn’t feel real, either. I love how her story shows what living in Jamaica’s less-than-desirable neighborhoods might be like. As for Tru’s story, which should have much more detail, we go from sad little girl to very disturbed, self-mutilating young woman without enough insight as to how she unraveled more and more, as her mother stayed away. The author seems to try to point it all on the mom leaving, then on the sexuality, and on her being a bit of a social outcast-but it never comes together with a realistic, much less satisfying, explanation or conclusion. Also, there are a few brief sentences here and there-such as one that says something about how the workers in the girls’ school have to “clean the menstrual blood off the girls’ toilets-“ sounds like a cheap way to get a little gasp. The lovemaking scenes, I get. Those other few-unrelated and annoying.