How to Love a Jamaican Stories
eBook - 2018
“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,” an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privil...eged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In “Mash Up Love,” a twin’s chance sighting of his...
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Random House Publishing Group
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- English
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File Size | 2 GB |
ISBN | 9781524799212 |
Release Date | 7/24/2018 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B076YYPPLK |
Release Date | 7/24/2018 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 2 GB |
ISBN | 9781524799212 |
Release Date | 7/24/2018 |