Dominicana: A Novel Ages 4 and up and human who experienced her

and human who experienced her early days in silence

Jessica calls on you to broaden your circles of compassion to embrace the entire globe—and to bring that cultivation of imperfect courage to a world that deeply needs you

self-reliance

she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry

But before a future can be savored there’s a past to be reckoned with

Dominicana: A Novel Ages 4 and up and human who experienced herIn the vein of ANOTHER BROOKLYN and AMERICANAH, a novel about a Dominican teenagers arranged marriage and immigration to New York City, set in the 1960s and inspired by the author's mother. Fifteen year old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesnt matter that he is twice her