How to Love a Jamaican: Stories

✍ Scribed by Arthurs, Alexia

• Book ID: 110186232
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 583 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"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"
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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...