Patsy
She leaves her daughter in Jamaica for New York, and the promised life is not there.
Patsy leaves her daughter in Jamaica to join the woman she loves in New York, and finds undocumented life is nothing like the letters suggested. Dennis-Benn writes both sides of the separation without excusing the choice or condemning it, and is equally clear-eyed about the daughter left behind, who grows up composing her own version of why her mother went.
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