PositiveLatino Book ReviewAna’s burden of her mother’s demands, a husband she does not love, and a foreign land make Dominicana a particularly heart wrenching coming of age story. Plucked from her childhood and brought into circumstances beyond her control, Angie Cruz carefully takes us through Ana’s heartache and reality. Each character has their influence on Ana, but no one more than Washington Heights itself. The Heights becomes its own living and breathing character that interacts and changes with Ana as she buds from the concrete, giving us a full picture of what it was like in New York for an immigrant in the 60s. An important novel for our time, Dominicana is beautifully written with a spellbound lead in Ana that leaves us hopeful when her story seems anything but.
