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Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from...
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"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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Alma Huebner, a Latin American novelist, is working on another of her best-selling family sagas when she's sidetracked by the story of an earlier idealist, Francisco Xavier Balmis, who undertook to vaccinate the population of Spain's American colonies, which were devastated by smallpox. To do this, live 'carriers' are required. Selection of these boys falls to Isabel Gomez y Cendala. Isabel's bravery inspires a very different novel from Alma. 'Saving...
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"Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." -The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters-Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía-and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father's role in an attempt...
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Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2004
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1st ed.
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155 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Best-selling novelist and award-winning poet Alvarez shares 75 new poems that trace her life and her work from her childhood in the Dominican Republic to her adulthood as a celebrated Latina writer.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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1st ed.
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287 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
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English
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Julia Alvarez has been called a one-woman cultural collision� by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager when Julia and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, Piti crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, charmed...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2007
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278 p. ; 22 cm.
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Explores a Latina girl's coming of age ceremony, discussing the origins and cultural importance of a quinceañera and providing insight into the financial and social implications of a quince party.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2000
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1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
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Chelsea Green Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2002
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1st pbk. ed.. English/Spanish bilingual ed.
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68 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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"A Cafecito Story is a story of love, coffee, birds and hope. It is a beautifully written eco-fable by best-selling author Julia Alvarez, based on her and her husband's experiences trying to reclaim a small coffee farm in her native Dominican Republic..." Amazon.
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