Here Comes the Sun in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Jan 23, 2017 Abby Johnson rated it really liked it

Shelves: diverse, contemporary, author-of-color, read-harder-2017, audio, grownup_books

This book is a real treat for lovers of character-driven works. This story of a Jamaican family is told from different perspectives, allowing readers to get the full benefits of the reveals and twists of the plot as we go along. Margot would do anything to help her teenage sister Thandi succeed, including debasing herself at the hotel she works at in order to help pay for Thandi's school fees and to try to get ahead. Thandi faces life with the full pressure of her entire family heaped on her bac ...more

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Sep 19, 2016 Ally rated it liked it

Shelves: 2016-challenge

When I put this book on my Goodreads shelf, I thought it was going to be a cutting non-fiction expose on the effect the tourist industry has on Jamaica. Instead, I got a fiction novel about how a family copes with the effect the tourist industry has on Jamaica. Guess I should have read the description better. I already had the book so I read it and...it was ok. The Jamaican patois the author uses gives the book some depth, but was very hard to read/figure out words for this American. Also, I saw ...more

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Jun 09, 2017 Laine rated it liked it

Shelves: abandoned

This book is really well written, I think it may simply be too dark for me to get into it in my current mood. I may revisit it later and try to finish it.

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