Climate Changed
Hurricane Maria Leveled an Island But Left This Tradition Alive
A daughter of Dominica finds the storm only deepened her relationship to her ancestral home.
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I spent childhood summers on the Caribbean island of Dominica hearing “the sea took it.” The sea took the beach. The sea took the house that was too close to the beach. The sea took the road to the house on the beach.
The sea encircled, and encroached on, my parents’ home before they emigrated, first to England in the 1950s and then to America in the 1960s.