No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.
Edwidge DanticatTag: women writing dominican-republic haiti quisqueya
Lola swore she would never return to that terrible country. On one of our last nights as novios she said, Ten million Trujillos is all we are.
Junot DíazTag: dominican-republic the-dominican-republic
When did this fiend strike last?"
Ah . . . The last report was from the Dominican Republic. That was, let me see, two nights ago."
Dominican Republic! Why in the world would he go there?"
Exactly what I would like to know.
Tag: humor dominican-republic
But no matter what the truth, remember: Dominicans are Caribbean and therefore have an extraordinary tolerance for extreme phenomena
Junot DíazTag: caribbean dominican-republic
The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
Raquel CepedaTag: dominican-republic ancestry traveling holy-land traveller spiritual-journey ancestral-land
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú Americanus, or more colloquially, fukú-generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and Doom of the New World.
Junot DíazTag: fiction curse dominican-republic dominican antilles tainos
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