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"In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once: some cultivated, some simple, some wickedly funny, some deeply melancholic. All of them shine."--Zadie Smith Named one of Entertainment Weekly's "Hot Summer Reads of 2018" and BuzzFeed's "Summer Books to Get Excited About" Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret--Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection 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 couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In "Mermaid River," a Jamaica

Who reads How to Love a Jamaican : Stories?

Author

Alexia Arthurs [Arthurs, Alexia]

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781524799212

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (492 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14