Here Comes the Sun

The first and only time I stayed at a Caribbean resort (in the Dominican Republic), I befriended a local young man who worked at the resort; he took me to town and showed me how his family lived, how he was applauded for getting a good job at one of the tourist resorts. It was jarring, compared to the life I was living at the resort. Nicole Dennis-Benn's novel is equally as jarring, an equally poignant yet unsettling look at the world hidden away from the tourism—a world of people looking to survive and thrive and build their hopes and dreams through the next generation to come.

(originally published on inthemargins.ca)