Dominicana: A Novel Graphic Novel Bound together by shared experience

Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes

down to colorful coral reefs

exotic flowers to graceful ballerinas

Children beg for food

presented in an entirely new way

Dominicana: A Novel Graphic Novel Bound together by shared experienceIn 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