Award Name Benjamin Franklin Award Award category Autobiography/Memoir Gold Medal Winner, Autobiography/Memoir, 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.
Rita is an infant when her father leaves a successful career in the US to live in paradise--a seaside village in the Dominican Republic.
The Coconut Latitudes is her haunting, lyrical memoir of surviving a reality far from the envisioned Eden--and of the terrible cost of keeping secrets.
She Writes Press The coconut latitudes: secrets, storms, and survival in the caribbean, paperback/rita m. gardner
