Here Comes the Sun

Margot works at a resort near Montego Bay, where visitors’ comfort depends on labor and sacrifices they rarely see. She is determined that her younger sister, Thandi, will have opportunities beyond the life available to her. That ambition sits alongside desires Margot must keep hidden, including her relationship with a woman named Verdene. When changes at the hotel promise advancement for some and displacement for others, the choices facing her become harder to separate from the future of her community. Moving through family obligations, class divisions and forbidden intimacy, the novel asks what the pursuit of escape can cost—and who is left to bear that cost when paradise is built for outsiders.