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Book Review of The Coconut Lattitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean

The Coconut Lattitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean
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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.