Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz is a Dominican-American author and professor whose fiction draws deeply on the immigrant experience and the Dominican diaspora in New York City. Dominicana is her acclaimed novel based on her mother's story — a fifteen-year-old girl from the Dominican Republic who is married off to an older man and sent to 1960s New York, where she must navigate a new country, a difficult marriage, and her own awakening. The novel is both intimate and epic. Her audiobooks and books are powerful, immersive listening and reading for fans of literary fiction about immigration, identity, and women finding their way to freedom.