LibraryReads votes due 5/1!
We have 2 starred reviews for Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-Benn, but we still need your help. I hope you’ll consider voting for it for LibraryReads - the votes for June titles are due by 5/1. If you’re not familiar with the program, LibraryReads is a monthly nationwide staff picks list that is determined by votes from public library staff. Anyone who works at a public library is eligible to vote. More info on LibraryReads and how to participate here.
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"Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun, 2016) builds big worlds inside and outside of her touchable characters, writing through their knotty love in all its failures and mercies in this empathic intergenerational epic of womanhood and inheritance." - Booklist, Starred Review
"It's a marker of Dennis-Benn's masterful prowess at characterization and her elegant, nuanced writing that the people here—even when they're flawed or unlikable—inspire sympathy and respect. Dennis-Benn has written a profound book about sexuality, gender, race, and immigration that speaks to the contemporary moment through the figure of a woman alive with passion and regret." - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Nicole Dennis-Benn is an exquisite writer who paints scenes with words so vivid you might as well be walking through it as a character, not a reader. In Patsy, she addresses motherhood, sexuality, racism, and colorism; turning her prodigious talents to the timely story of an undocumented immigrant straddling two worlds while learning that love isn’t a choice, but the beat in one’s blood.” - Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things
“A stunningly powerful inter-generational novel about the price—the ransom really— women must pay to choose themselves, their lives, their value, their humanity. Frank, funny, salty, heartbreaking, full of love, Dennis-Benn is a map-maker to those places in the heart held so closely, the holder may not know even they’re there.” - Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“Beautiful, shattering, and deeply affecting. Patsy’s story ultimately makes for a novel that is destined to endure.” - Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen
“An aching meditation on motherhood, sacrifice, and what it means to look truth in the face in order to fully become oneself. A beautiful book, as heartbreaking as it is restorative.” - Cristina Henriquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans
“A novel that splits at the seams with yearning, elegantly written and deeply felt. Dennis-Benn leads the reader through Patsy's life with empathy and grace.” - Esme Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias
