{"product_id":"patsy","title":"Patsy: A Read with Jenna Pick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBest Books of 2019: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post • O, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime •\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e NPR • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople •\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Buzzfeed\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTODAY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Selection\u003cbr\u003eWinner • Lambda Literary Award [Lesbian Fiction]\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Lily Lit Club Selection\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted • PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Library Association • A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book (Stonewall Book Awards)\u003cbr\u003eFinalist • Aspen Words Literary Prize\u003cbr\u003eFinalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize\u003cbr\u003eApple Books • Best Books of the Month\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e • Editors’ Choice Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e • Most Memorable Fictional Families of the Year\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Morning News\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Tournament of Books\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRumpus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Book Club Selection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration, and the sacrifices we make in the name of love from award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeralded for writing “deeply memorable . . . women” (Jennifer Senior, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePatsy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to love whomever she chooses, bravely putting \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eherself\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePatsy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this astonishing novel “fills a literary void with compassion, complexity and tenderness” (Joshunda Sanders, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), offering up a vital portrait of the chasms between selfhood and motherhood, the American dream and reality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53848109416816,"sku":"9781631497896","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_a2fc6cb8-0a37-4b3a-9404-aecd3c6081ae.jpg?v=1780170726","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/patsy","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}