La Doña: Essays on the Dominican Matriarch

by Amanda M. Ortiz (Contributor), Yamberlie Tavarez (Editor), Jhoselin Perez (Contributor)

12 contributing Dominican writers share narratives of women in their families who have carried the weight of protecting, guiding, and educating in a society where men dominate and the home remains the expected domain of women. They describe the women who have fought and embraced the expectations of the matriarchal role and what they left behind.

*Features essays in both English and Spanish

62 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2022

About the author

Amanda M. Ortiz is a first-generation Dominican writer and copyeditor hailing from New York, previously published by Spanglish Voces, Dominican Writers Association, and The Intercultural Leadership Institute. Her writing is a space of candid cultural, ancestral, and personal reflection that often centers Hispaniola and underscores the travails of cultural erasure as well as societal memory and forgetting. Along with Spanish, she is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese e fica apaixonada pelo Brasil. She can be found on Instagram @amopalabras and at amocommunications.com.

Reviews

[Jhoselin Perez-Blanco]

As a contributing writer of this book, I have to say it is a honor to be part of this publication. The stories are deep memories and encounters of Dominican women in our lives. Transporting us to a time, to a place, to a memory, to a family member that consumes our every thought.

[StylesPlenty]

I was able to related to many of these cuentos.
They all brought back so many memorias y recuerdos.