Loud, Hot, and Sweaty in the Dominican Republic, the first part of the Throwing Rocks at the Moon series, is the story of Zach’s first year in country. It follows Zach’s arrival in Batey El Cano, a small, rural community of descendants of Haitian immigrants, through the struggles, frustrations, growth, and small victories of that year. A first-person account of the hardships of some of the beautiful island’s forgotten underclass, and a heartfelt journey of one young man coming to terms with the world, the story is not Zach’s alone, but of a community of people struggling to get by in turning towards each other…