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Patsy

by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Lambda Literary · 2020 · Winner
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Liveright PublishingLiterary FictionISBN 9781631494581

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Lambda Literary Award for FictionLesbian Fiction2020Winner

About This Book

A novel about a Jamaican immigrant in Brooklyn who is undocumented, exploring the costs of migration and the bonds between mothers and daughters.

About the Author

Nicole Dennis-BennUS

Nicole Dennis-Benn is a Jamaican American author who won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction twice — for Here Comes the Sun (2017) in 2017 and for Patsy (2019) in 2020. Here Comes the Sun is set in a Jamaican resort town and follows several women navigating poverty, sexuality, and the legacies of colonialism. Patsy is about a Jamaican immigrant in Brooklyn who is undocumented, exploring the costs of migration and the bonds between mothers and daughters. Read more →

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