Suggested Reading

Revisit the days when the leaf ruled the island in Michiel Baud's Peasants and Tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 1870-1930.

World War II is the setting for Peter Furst's novel Don Quixote in Exile, where a Jewish refugee settles in the Dominican Republic.

Paul Austerlitz and Robert Farris Thompson dissect the phenomenon of Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity.

Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream by Alan Klein puts Slammin' Sammy Sosa in context.

Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Pere. A novel about a first-generation Dominican-American woman returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart. The book offers a penetrating portrait of the American immigrant experience as she explores the true meanings of identity, family--and home.

The Dominican Republic: A National History by Frank Moya Pons. An in-depth review of the history of the Dominican Republic.

Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola by Michele Wucker. An in-depth review of the history of the Dominican Republic.

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargos Llosa and Edith Grossman. A historical fiction novel, leading its readers through the Trujillo dictatorship and how its effects damaged a prominent Dominican family.

The Dominican Republic: A Caribbean Crucible by Howard Wiarda and Michael J Kryzanek.

Muddy Cup by Barbara Fischkin. A journalist follows the emigration process of a Dominican family from the time they apply for their visas through their move to New York. In between she goes with them to their "campo" and becomes one of the family.

Any book by award winning author Julia Alvarez will take you to the heart of Dominican culture and allow you to experience the love and compassion of these great people.