Here Comes the Sun, Nicole DennisBenn
Here Comes the Sun, Nicole DennisBenn
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Here Comes the Sun
A Novel

Author: Nicole Dennis-Benn

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/19/2016

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the impending destruction of their community, each woman?fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves?must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant, passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise.

About Nicole Dennis-Benn

Nicole Dennis-Benn is a Lambda Literary Award winner and New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship recipient. She's also a finalist for the 2016 John Leonard Prize National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the 2017 Young Lions Fiction Award for her debut novel, Here Comes the Sun-a New York Times Notable Book and an NPR, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2016. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Elle, Electric Literature, Ebony, and the Feminist Wire. She was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aerion on July 07, 2016

What an amazing book! This book captured so many different themes that can be problematic to all people, but especially people of color is desperate and dire situations. The problems of intergenerational damage, the cycle of hurting those around you as a result of you being hurt, the cycle of povert......more

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz on July 01, 2019

Updated June 25, 2019 Here Comes the Sun is BookOfCinz June Book club pick and I am happy we decided to give this debut novel a go. I still stand by original review but I have to say, re-reading this novel the second time was equally as enjoyable. I did find some parts to be a bet dramatic but ove......more

Goodreads review by Jesse On Youtube on June 17, 2022

I will be billing Nicole Dennis-Benn for therapy.......more