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

Jul 18, 2016 Lianne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, kindle, 2016

This was a slow starter for me, somewhat aided by the fact that I struggled with reading the Jamaican patois at the beginning. I am so glad I stuck with it, though -- once it got rolling, it really got rolling and never looked back (and I settled into reading the dialect). The secrets, histories, and connections between characters just kept coming and coming.

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Jan 21, 2017 Jess rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017

I feel like the cover to this book is very misleading. It's a book about broken women - a mother and her two daughters - and how they struggle to survive in Jamaica. It explores some of the hardest subjects, alternating beautiful diction about the landscape with the complexity of patois. It's an eye-opening piece of fiction, but don't go into it thinking it'll be a happy, cheerful read. ...more

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Jul 18, 2016 Carly Thompson rated it liked it

Shelves: literary-fiction, glbt, 2016

3.5 Stars. Emotionally wrenching mother daughter story. Set in Jamaica during the mid 1990s, Here Comes the Sun, is the story of two daughters, Margot and Thandi, and their mother Delores. Margot works at a resort hotel and Delores sells art and souvenirs to tourists from cruise ships. Teenage Thandi is the repository of all their hopes and dreams - she is going to a private Catholic high school and is told that she will be a doctor and save the family. Delores is abusive to Margot who has turne ...more

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