Here Comes the Sun (Audiobook)

from Smits

Strong novel that tells it as it is in a resort community in Jamaica. The life of locals like Margot, Thani and their mother Delores tell what it's really like in paradise. Written using the local dialect we are slapped in the face with the reality of poverty to a family. Delores is a horrible mo...

from indygo88

This title & cover art may be misleading to some. It's hard not to look at the cover of this book & hear those musical lyrics in your head, picturing beautiful Jamaican beaches & vacation resorts. But that's not what this book is about. This is about the darker side of Jamaica, where real people ...

from Brainannex

In Jamaica, you either have or have not. Margot comes from a family of have-nots but has big plans for her and her sister to have. To have a fancy job, a good education, a big house. Some of that happens, but not in the way you'd expect. Brings up interesting implications for class, race, etc.

from banjo123

I read this one for my lesbian book group. At first I wasn't sure I liked the book, I think because I was expecting a Lesbian Novel, instead of what this is, which is a novel with lesbians in it (really a better thing). It's the story of a family of three women. The mother Delores and the older s...

from froxgirl

There's a great deal of trouble in paradise. Jamaica is portrayed by the author as two disturbed sides of a coin: the oppression by wealthy whites and the misery inflicted on poor residents by their own self-appointed arbiters of "family values". Mother Delores sold daughter Margot for cash, and ...