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Arthurs, Alexia, author.
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Jamaicans -- Fiction.
Jamaican Americans -- Fiction.
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How to love a Jamaic...
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How to love a Jamaican : stories / Alexia Arthurs.
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Arthurs, Alexia, author.
New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
Subjects
Jamaicans -- Fiction.
Jamaican Americans -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781524799205 (hardcover) :
1524799203 (hardcover)
Description:
239 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Light-skinned girls and Kelly Rowlands -- Mash up love -- Slack -- Bad behavior -- Island -- Mermaid River -- The ghost of Jia Yi -- How to love a Jamaican -- On shelf -- We eat our daughters -- Shirley from a small place.
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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 privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In "Mash Up Love," a twin's chance sighting of his estranged brother--the prodigal son of the family--stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In "Bad Behavior," a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In "Mermaid River," a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In "The Ghost of Jia Yi," a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in "Shirley from a Small Place," a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother's big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital.
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