84 pages • 2 hours read
Angie CruzDominicana
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Introduction
Dominicana
- Genre: Fiction; YA historical
- Originally Published: 2019
- Reading Level/Interest: Grades 11-12; college/adult
- Structure/Length: 6 parts; approx. 336 pages; approx. 10 hours, 13 minutes on audio
- Protagonist and Central Conflict: This historical fiction set in 1965 features Ana Canción, a 15-year-old Dominican immigrant who arrives in New York City married to an older, abusive man. Ana finds her way to happiness, fulfillment, and the “American Dream” despite challenges and homesickness.
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: Poverty; child marriage; physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; political violence and assassination; death of a family member
Angie Cruz, Author
- Bio: Born in 1972 in Washington Heights, New York; spent her youth traveling between America and the Dominican Republic; initially interested in fashion and studied Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology; returned to college at the State University of New York (Binghamton) to study literature; has been published in literary journals such as The Paris Review and Callaloo; novelist, editor, and professor; editor-in-chief and founder of Aster(ix), a literary journal; currently an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh
- Other Works: Soledad (2001); Let It Rain Coffee (2005); How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (2022)
- Awards: First novel chosen for the Good Morning America book club (2019); The Women’s Prize for Fiction (shortlisted; 2020); RUSA Notable selection; ALA/YALSA Alex Award (winner; 2020); Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction (longlisted; 2020)
