A childhood among palm trees is the Spanish version of the successful book of memoirs by Rita M. Gardner, who, at six months old, was taken by her family to emigrate to the Dominican Republic, on a small Caribbean island. There, between the mountains and the path of the storms, between family conflicts and in the midst of one of the bloodiest and most horrifying times of that small nation (the era of the dictatorship of Rafael L. Trujillo), Rita would spend her entire childhood and much of his adolescence. This is a story to be read carefully. A work of art, without a doubt.