Dominicana by Angie Cruz

Few of us can truly understand what life must be like for a young girl pulled from her family in the Dominican Republic and the only home she has ever known, to be married off to an older man and dumped into a completely new world of NYC. No friends, no language skills, no means to support herself and no way to escape and go back home. Ana is smart and she will learn to survive and possibly thrive in this giant city. She has learned one lesson - trust yourself and only yourself. Ana is one of the thousands who want a chance to make something of their life and a better life for their future children and they are not afraid to work hard to achieve it. To them, America is still the land of opportunity and New York the city of gold.