Title: The coconut latitudes
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.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, Family secrets, Social conditions, Hurricanes, Dominican republic, history
Places: Dominican Republic
People: Rita M. Gardner
Time periods: 20th century