The Author
Victor Acosta
Dominican-American writer and novelist
Dominican-American writer and novelist
Born in the small town of Salcedo in the Dominican Republic.
Migrated to the Bronx, NY at eleven years old.
Graduated from Park West High School in New York City.
Graduated from Westwood College Online Program.
Published the first book in the Adventures of Barry the Weiner Dog series, followed by his debut novel, Shadows Beneath the Shore: Secrets of a Dominican Mine.
Released Sombras Bajo La Orilla, the Spanish-language edition of Shadows Beneath the Shore: Secrets of a Dominican Mine.
Long before he was a novelist, Victor was a boy in Salcedo hearing family stories he wouldn't fully understand until decades later — stories that became the spine of Shadows Beneath the Shore.
Every character in the novel is fiction. The mine, the migration, and the silence around both are not.
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