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How to Love a Jamaican

Auteur(s): Alexia Arthurs
Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards, Adenrele Ojo, Dominic Hoffman, James Fouhey
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“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 15 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 immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these 11 stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life.

In "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.

Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential authors. 

Audiobook Table of Contents:

LIGHT-SKINNED GIRLS AND KELLY ROWLANDS, read by Adenrele Ojo

MASH UP LOVE, read by Dominic Hoffman

SLACK, read by Janina Edwards

BAD BEHAVIOR, read by Janina Edwards

ISLAND, read by Adenrele Ojo

MERMAID RIVER, read by James Fouhey

THE GHOST OF JIA YI, read by Janina Edwards

HOW TO LOVE A JAMAICAN, read by Dominic Hoffman

ON SHELF, read by Janina Edwards

WE EAT OUR DAUGHTERS, read by Janina Edwards and Adenrele Ojo

SHIRLEY FROM A SMALL PLACE, read by Janina Edwards

Praise for How to Love a Jamaican:

"A sublime short-story collection from newcomer Alexia Arthurs that explores, through various characters, a specific strand of the immigrant experience." (Entertainment Weekly

“Gorgeous, tender, heartbreaking stories.... Arthurs is a witty, perceptive, and generous writer, and this is a book that will last.” (Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties)  

"Vivid and exciting...every story rings beautifully true." (Marie Claire)

©2018 Alexia Arthurs (P)2018 Random House Audio

Ce que les critiques en disent

“In vibrant, evocative prose, Arthurs brings these characters, and their varied experiences of a shared home, to life.” (BuzzFeed

“With its singular mix of psychological precision and sun-kissed lyricism, this dazzling debut marks the emergence of a knockout new voice.” (O: The Oprah Magazine)

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Please get authentic Jamaican audio readers

I loved the stories. I am a first-generation Canadian, my parents are Jamaican born and left in their early twenties. I love audiobooks and I am an author myself. I am concerned that there seems to be a real shortage of audio readers who can do authentic Jamaican accents. I found it distracting. Common Jamaican patois words such as duppy and pickney were mispronounced as “doopy” and “pick a nee”. Other than this, I loved this book but the accents did not always flow. What can be done about this? A more complete review is on Goodreads.

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Great short stories

These short stories really capture my experience growing up in the Caribbean. True to life, loved it!

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