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How to Love a Jamaican

How to Love a Jamaican Stories

Short stories

Paperback (27 Jun 2019)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love' - Zadie Smith

A riveting exploration of a nation's heart and soul, How to Love a Jamaican sees Alexia Arthurs weave profound stories of Jamaican emigrants and the complex bonds tying them to their families back home.

From close-knit Jamaican communities to bustling New York streets, this evocative collection paints an intimate, nuanced portrait of immigrant experiences. It includes the story 'Bad Behavior', for which Arthurs won the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize.

Filled with both tenderness and cruelty, ambition and regret, How to Love a Jamaican is a compelling examination of identity, culture, and the nuances of human disposition.

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781509883622
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Short stories
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 239
Weight: 186g
Height: 193mm
Width: 125mm
Spine width: 16mm