{"product_id":"how-to-love-a-jamaican","title":"How to Love a Jamaican","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"drawer-book-description\" class=\"drawer-panel first-panel\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-description-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"drawer-copy\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"book-description-copy\" class=\"drawer-copy-text\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"copy-height\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Top 15 Best of the Year” • A\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWell-Read Black Girl \u003c\/em\u003ePick\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTenderness 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “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 Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In “The Ghost of Jia Yi,” a recently murdered 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential authors.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black Food Bookstore and Culture Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46650864009365,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0521\/7419\/2789\/files\/9781524799229.jpg?v=1763939533","url":"https:\/\/www.blackfoodshop.com\/products\/how-to-love-a-jamaican","provider":"Black Food Bookstore and Culture Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}