Throwing Rocks at the Moon: There Was This One Time in the Dominican Republic

There Was This One Time in the Dominican Republic, the second part of the Throwing Rocks at the Moon series, is the continuing story of Zach’s time in country. It follows Zach’s work 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…