Nicole Dennis-Benn

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it’s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years before for the 'land of opportunity'. Patsy’s plans do not include her young daughter, Tru, whom she leaves behind in a bittersweet trail of sadness and relief. But Brooklyn is...

From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration, and sacrifice. For Patsy, a visa to America is her ticket to freedom, a passport to the land of opportunity. She yearns to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret lover, but her plans do not include her religious mother or even her young daughter,...