How to Love a Jamaican: Stories

by Alexia Arthurs

Book Overview

"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

An O: The Oprah Magazine "Top 10 Best of the Year" - A Well Read Black Girl's Pick

Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret--Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524799203
• ISBN13: 9781524799205
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Disappointing, not what I expected

This is yet another story of someone being a victim and seeing everything as race related. I love the Jamaican people and was hoping for an uplifting success story or a story of their tremendous spirit overcoming adversity.