Alvarez, Julia

Collection of essays by the novelists and poet describing life in two cultures and her thoughts on writing.

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.

Presents a collection of seventy-five poems that provide a narrative of a woman's inner life as she looks back from the perspective of middle age.

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.

The story of the Garcia families adjustment to life in the United States.

A collection of two dozen essays written by bestselling author Julia Alvarez that discuss the major issues she has had to face in her life.

Worried that Papa Espada cannot find a job, T?a Lola, Juanita, Miguel, and the "Sword" sisters decide to start a bed and breakfast at Colonel Charlebois's Vermont house.

When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes T?a Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.

Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.

Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.