{"product_id":"2940169355017","title":"How to Love a Jamaican: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eTenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regretamp;mdash;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 brotheramp;mdash;the prodigal son of the familyamp;mdash;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction's most dynamic and essential authors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116616728816,"sku":"2940169355017","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169355017_p0.jpg?v=1763680705","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169355017","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}