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    From Jamaica, with heartache

    by Joshunda Sanders Jun 03, 2019 2 minutes

    PATSY, THE STUNNING SECOND NOVEL BY NICOLE Dennis-Benn, chronicles the often hidden sacrifices that black immigrant women make in pursuit of the ever elusive American Dream. As in her first novel, the acclaimed Here Comes the Sun, Dennis-Benn crafts a narrative set between her native Jamaica and her current home of Brooklyn, this time following a mother and child on distinctly different paths over

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