![]() Dominicana will be released in paperback today, Aug. “The book has become a vehicle for families to talk about these issues that often go unspoken,” Cruz tells Remezcla. ![]() Since Dominicana was published last fall, Cruz has received many messages from readers whose loved ones had similar lived experiences as the novel’s protagonist. ![]() She didn’t give up on the book even as it was rejected multiple times by publishers. This is Cruz’s third novel and one she spent more than a decade researching and crafting. Readers are taken on a tumultuous and at times hopeful journey with Ana as she navigates this new life and is faced with difficult choices. Once in New York, Ana finds herself in a physically abusive marriage and mostly confined to an apartment in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood at a time when there weren’t many Dominicans in the city. Marrying the entrepreneur will cement a secure future for their family in the United States, according to Ana’s mother. 9.ĭominicana centers on Ana Canción, a 15-year-old Dominican girl whose family forces her into an arranged marriage with a much older man. The Dominican-American author is the only Latina up for the prize, to be announced on Sept. Angie Cruz’s critically-acclaimed novel Dominicana was shortlisted for the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction in April. ![]()
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