Explores a Latina girl's coming of age ceremony, discussing the origins and cultural importance of a quincea?era and providing insight into the financial and social implications of a quince party.
Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in 1803.
A novel based on the life of Profesora Camila Henr?quez-Ure?a, a teacher whose mother was Salom? Ure?a, famous nineteenth-century political poet from the Dominican Republic.
Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
Explores a Latina girl's coming of age ceremony, discussing the origins and cultural importance of a quincea?era and providing insight into the financial and social implications of a quince party.
