Here Comes the Sun – A Novel - Softcover

Dennis–benn, Nicole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631492942 ISBN 13: 9781631492945

Publisher: Liveright, 2017

Synopsis

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award, and Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

Named a Best Book of 2016 by the New York Times, NPR, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Root, BookRiot, Kirkus, Amazon, WBUR's "On Point," and Barnes & Noble

In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village.

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Review:

With eloquent prose and unsentimental clarity, Dennis-Benn offers an excellent reason to look beyond the surface beauty of paradise. This novel is as bracing as a cold shower on a hot day.--Connie Olge

[A] striking portrayal of a vibrant community where everyone is related and every action reverberates, and [an] unstinting description of how shame whips desire into submission.

An indelible portrait of a woman in motion. Nicole Dennis-Benn has created in Margot a fierce and fearless striver. A fantastic debut.--Laila Lalami, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Moor's Account

Her prose is lyrical and vibrant, but Dennis-Benn has a deeper purpose, and she takes the reader on a trip that is impossible to forget.--Molly McArdle

A moving portrait of a Jamaican family and community wrestling with the great questions in life - how to live and love freely in a world filled with obstacles to both. Nicole Dennis-Benn's exploration of Caribbean women's desires for themselves and each other is an important contribution to our literature.--Naomi Jackson, author of The Star Side of Bird Hill

One of the most stunningly beautiful novels in recent years... it feels like a miracle.--Michael Schaub

Impossible to forget.... Dennis-Benn's writing is as lush as the island itself.... [She] knows how to make the women so complex that we believe every hairpin turn of her plot.--Caroline Leavitt

The book vividly captures the fraught dynamics of familial and romantic relationships... Poignant.

Similarities to fellow Caribbean writer Edwidge Danticat, or early V.S. Naipaul, are plentiful... [A] rich, accomplished novel.--Kenneth Champeon

Here are visceral, profound writing and invigorating characters. Here, too, is the deep and specific sensation of experience... Haunting and superbly crafted, this is a magical book from a writer of immense talent and intelligence.

About the Author:

Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of Here Comes the Sun, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she teaches at Princeton and lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1631492942
• ISBN 13: 9781631492945
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352