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Nicole Dennis-Benn, "Here Comes the Sun"
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August 11, 2016
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57:57Now PlayingBorn and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and now teaching writing in Brooklyn, Dennis-Benn has been awarded fellowships from Hedgebrook, MacDowell, Lambda, and the Sewanee Writers Conference. Her debut novel unfolds in a rapidly developing Jamaica. The resort town of Montego Bay is enjoying a boom; new hotels are going up, and Margot is determined to carve out financial independence for herself and her younger sister. She also senses social change in the air, and as traditional attitudes give way, she hopes to be able to love another woman openly.
Dennis-Benn is in conversation with Marita Golden, co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
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