How to love a Jamaican stories

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 privileg...

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Main Author: Arthurs, Alexia (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
Edition: First edition.
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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.