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

The Coconut Latitudes · Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean
Authors
Gardner, Rita M.
Publisher
She Writes Press
Tags
biography , travel
ISBN
9781631529016
Date
2014-09-15T23:00:00+00:00
Size
0.70 MB
Lang
en
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"The Coconut Latitudes" is an award-winning memoir about a childhood in paradise, a journey into unexpected misery, and a twisted path to redemption and truth. Leaving a successful career in the U.S., a father makes the fateful decision to settle his wife and two young daughters on an isolated beach in the Dominican Republic. He plants ten thousand coconut seedlings and declares they are the luckiest people alive.

In reality, the family is in the path of hurricanes and in the grip of a brutal dictator. Against a backdrop of shimmering palms and kaleidoscope sunsets, a crisis causes the already fragile family to implode. "The Coconut Latitudes" is a haunting, lyrical memoir of surviving a reality far from the envisioned Eden, the terrible cost of keeping secrets, and the transformative power of truth and love.