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Best Books of 2019: Washington Post - O, The Oprah Magazine - Time - NPR - People - Buzzfeed
A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Selection
Winner - Lambda Literary Award [Lesbian Fiction]
A Washington Post Lily Lit Club Selection
Longlisted - PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
American Library Association - A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book (Stonewall Book Awards)
Finalist - Aspen Words Literary Prize
Finalist - Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
Apple Books - Best Books of the Month
New York Times Book Review - Editors' Choice Selection
Kirkus Reviews - Most Memorable Fictional Families of the Year
Longlisted - The Morning News Tournament of Books
A Rumpus Book Club Selection
A beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration, and the sacrifices we make in the name of love from award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn.
Brief description: Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of Here Comes the Sun, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she teaches at Princeton and lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York.
Review Quotes: Sumptuous... Dennis-Benn ingeniously humanizes and changes up the typical immigrant saga... The result is a knowing, at times painfully funny novel about the disorienting relationship between selfhood and sacrifice.-- "O, The Oprah Magazine"