title: Fadeaway Girl: A Novel
author:  Martha Grimes 
description: Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of eighteen Richard Jury mysteries and also the acclaimed fiction <b>Foul Matter</b>, <b>Cold Flat Junction</b>, <b>Hotel Paradise</b>, <b>The End of the Pier</b>, and <b>The Train Now Departing</b>.
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  PATSY
  
  
  _A Novel_ ![image](images/fl.jpg)
  
  
  NICOLE DENNIS-BENN
  
  
  ![image](images/logo.jpg)
  
  
  LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING CORPORATION
  
  
  A Division of W. W. Norton & Company
  
  
  Independent Publishers Since 1923
  
  
  New York ![image](images/fl.jpg) London
  
  
  In memory of the unsung stories of undocumented immigrants  
  in search of trees with branches.
  
  
  “Maybe home is somewhere I’m going  
  and have never been before.”
  
  
  ![images](images/fl.jpg)
  
  
  WARSAN SHIRE
  
  
  _Book I_ ![images](images/fl.jpg)
  
  
  BIRDIE (1998)
  
  
  1
  
  
  JUST TWO YEARS SHY OF THIRTY, PATSY HAS NOTHING TO SHOW for it besides the
  flimsy brown envelope that she uses to shade herself from the white-hot glare
  of the sun. The envelope contains all her papers—from birth certificate to
  vaccination records. But most importantly, it carries her dream, a dream every
  Jamaican of a certain social ranking shares: boarding an airplane to America.
  For the destination, and for the ability to fly.
  
  
  So when Patsy got the second opportuni