Miriam S. (diva99) reviewed The Coconut Lattitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean on + 19 more book reviews
The writer's alcoholic father relocated her, her mother and older sister to the Dominican Republic in 1946 to farm coconuts. Unusual setting in a different time. Her sister is lost to the family for several years. Her love and longing to be closers to her sister came through very strongly.
