The Coconut Latitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean

Gold Medal Winner, Autobiography/Memoir, 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards. Rita is an infant when her father leaves a successful career in the US to live in "paradise"--a 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 09/16/2014
ISBN: 9781631529016
Pages: 207
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.49w x 0.57d
Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - Gold Medal Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/28/2014