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"When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible rekindling of their young love. But Patsy's plans don't include her overzealous, evangelical mother--or even...
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"In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a...
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Urban Books, LLC
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[2023]
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English
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"What do you do if people say you are born with the "mark of the devil," especially in Jamaica where many believe in the spirits of good and evil? If you are Isabella "Bella" Pigmore, born with a birthmark so pronounced that she faces ridicule for most of her young life, you feel bad--very bad. Leaving her hometown of Clarendon, Jamaica, behind, Bella travels to a new town, hoping to become invisible in a parish where she isn't known by anyone. But...
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E.P. Dutton
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[1987]
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English
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"[Michelle Cliff] takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman name Claire Savage ... And Jamaica-- almost a character in the book-- is described in terms of extraordinary beauty, coexisting with deep human tragedy. The violence that rises of of extreme oppression, the divided loyalties of a colonized person, the sexual dividedness of someone both male and female, and the...
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