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How to Love a Jamaican: Stories

`In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love.` Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth.One of Oprah Magazine`s 15 Favourite Books of 2018.`There is a way to be cruel that seems Jamaican to me.` Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret – Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection of short stories, How to Love a Jamaican, 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 his estranged brother – the prodigal son of the family – stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In `Bad Behavior`, a mother and father 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 international 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. The winner of the Paris Review`s Plimpton Prize for `Bad Behavior`, Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction`s most dynamic and essential young authors.

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