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    'Patsy' Discovers Her Dreams Don't Match Reality

    Nicole Dennis-Benn packs a lot of uncomfortable truths into this novel about a Jamaican woman who emigrates to New York looking for an old love and a new life, leaving her mother and daughter behind.
    by Michael Schaub Jun 04, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Liveright

    Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut novel, Here Comes the Sun, stunned critics when it was released in 2016. The story of a woman and her two daughters fighting for survival in their drought-stricken Jamaican town, it was a powerful look at issues like poverty, colorism and homophobia.

    Admirers of Here Comes the Sunhave waited three years for Dennis-Benn's followup, and anyone who was enchanted by her gorgeous writing are in for a happy surprise: isn't just as good as its predecessor, it's somehow even better.

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