Goodbye Uncle Bengy, Hello Uncle Sam: A Journey to Citizenship

By Joseph R. McLaren

Goodbye Uncle Bengy, Hello Uncle Sam is the story of a gifted young businessmanfrom Jamaica who comes to America in search of education and financialsuccess. Instead he finds economic struggle and a more complex society thanhe imagined.Born to a large, evangelical family in rural Jamaica, he must learn how toexcel in his new home with an unexpected new identity: as a minority in aracially sensitive country. More than ever, there are tensions with hischildhood religious convictions as he looks inward for strength from hispast and the will to overcome setbacks and relationship heartbreaks.His journey is about what it means to be a citizen, in all its political andemotional turmoil.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466267356
• ISBN13: 9781466267350
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"