How to Love a Jamaican Stories by Alexia Arthurs
Date: 22 February 2023 | Posted by: BeMyLove
How to Love a Jamaican Stories by Alexia Arthurs | 1.37 MB
English | 234 Pages
Title: How to Love a Jamaican
Author: Alexia Arthurs
Year: 2018
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"In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once: some cultivated, some simple, some wickedly funny, some deeply melancholic. All of them shine."—Zadie Smith
Named one of Entertainment Weekly's "Hot Summer Reads of 2018" and BuzzFeed's "Summer Books to Get Excited About"
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 privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In "Mash Up Love," a twin's chance sighting of...
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"In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once: some cultivated, some simple, some wickedly funny, some deeply melancholic. All of them shine."—Zadie Smith
Named one of Entertainment Weekly's "Hot Summer Reads of 2018" and BuzzFeed's "Summer Books to Get Excited About"
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 privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In "Mash Up Love," a twin's chance sighting of...
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