The Grand Paloma Resort: A Novel by Cleyvis Natera (Hardcover) (PREORDER)

Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological - Women - Hispanic and Latino 

RELEASE DATE: 8/12/2025  (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE AND ARRIVE 1-2 DAYS AFTER THE RELEASE DATE)

The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to please—that is, until they are pushed to the brink.

Laura is a manager at the Grand Paloma Resort, a Dominican woman who has risen this far through sheer hard work. Her idea to pair “platinum” guests with a resort employee to attend to their every need has been wildly successful. She’s mere weeks away from a promotion that will blaze a path off the resort, to a life of opportunity. If only her younger sister, Elena—who she’s looked after since the death of their mother – could get with the program.

Elena has tried her best to live up to her sister’s expectations. To escape the drudgery of waiting on rich tourists, she’s become increasingly dependent on pills and partying. As a babysitter at the resort, she’s at the mercy of guests who travel to indulge their worst impulses and need someone else to watch their kids while they do so. Now, after an accident, a child in her charge is believed dead, and Elena knows she'll be held responsible.

At a local beachfront watering hole, Elena runs into the child’s father. He offers her an obscene amount of money to give him private time with two young local girls. Elena pockets the cash to fund her escape and prays she’s gotten the girls out of harm’s way.

Set over the course of seven days, The Grand Paloma Resort offers an unforgettable story of class, family, and community, building to an intense climax in which the true costs of luxury are laid bare, forcing Laura and Elena to reckon with long-held secrets and true acts of love.

AUTHOR BIO:

Cleyvis Natera is the author of Neruda on the Park. She was born in the Dominican Republic, migrated to the United States at ten years old, and grew up in New York City. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University. Her writing has won awards and fellowships from PEN America, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Kenyon Review's Writers Workshops, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair, New Jersey.

"Natera returns to take us on a wild, gripping ride to The Grand Paloma Resort, where carefree tourists bask in the sun, oblivious to the high stakes drama of the Dominican workers toiling to make paradise appear perfect. With compelling characters and a narrative that steals your breath from the first page, Natera offers an unforgettable, unexpected story that will upend readers assumptions about power, pleasure and moral salvation." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming

"Part family saga, part mystery, Natera's stunning sophomore novel draws us into the firestorm that results when reckless youth, ambition, secrets, and exploitation collide. Like its setting in the Dominican Republic, The Grand Paloma Resort is lush and brimming with sociopolitical intricacies. Natera is a masterful storyteller, and this irresistible novel is a master class in human nature at its most vulnerable, most callous, and most righteous." --Deesha Philyaw, National Book Award finalist and author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies