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

by Rita M. Gardner

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631529013
• ISBN13: 9781631529016
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"