How to love a Jamaican : stories /

How to love a Jamaican : stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Arthurs, Alexia, author.
Uniform title:	Short stories. Selections
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
Description:	239 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Jamaicans -- Fiction. Jamaican Americans -- Fiction. Jamaican Americans. Jamaicans. Fiction. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11672199

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ISBN:	9781524799205 1524799203
Summary:	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 his estranged brother--the prodigal son of the family--stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In "Bad Behavior," a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In "Mermaid River," a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In "The Ghost of Jia Yi," a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in "Shirley from a Small Place," a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother's big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. This collection of short stories sweeps from close-knit island communities on Jamaica to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns. In them, Arthurs forms a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. -- adapted from jacket.

Table of Contents:

Light-skinned girls and Kelly Rowlands
Mash up love
Slack
Bad behavior
Island
Mermaid River
The ghost of Jia Yi
How to love a Jamaican
On shelf
We eat our daughters
Shirley from a small place.