The coconut latitudes
Subtitle: secrets, storms, and survival in the Caribbean
By: Rita M. Gardner
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781631529016
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Family secrets; Social conditions
Description: Rita is an infant when her father leaves a successful career in the US to live in 'paradise' -- seaside village in the Dominican Republic. The Coconut Latitudes is her haunting, lyrical memoir of surviving a reality far from the envisioned Eden -- and of the terrible cost of keeping secrets.