Julia Alvarez returns to her first love, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from all the seasons of her life, from childhood to the years of silver.
“Visitations is a cause for celebration. The first book of poems by Julia Alvarez in over twenty years braids miracles...
Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The...
Set in the Dominican Republic during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship of the 1960s, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters—four women who opposed Trujillo, and became immortalized as Las Mariposas, "The Butterflies".
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful...
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This beloved debut novel from New York Times bestselling author Julia Alvarez gives voice to four sisters growing up between two cultures when their family is forced to flee the Dominican Republic to New York City due to their father’s involvement in an attempt to overthrow a brutal dictator.
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Bestselling author Julia Alvarez delivers a luminous look inside the mind of a literature professor trying to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband.
Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man
"Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity. . . . Brims...
Bestselling author Julia Alvarez delivers a luminous look inside the mind of a literature professor trying to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband.
Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just...
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PURE BELPRÉ AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME • AN ALA-YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS
From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free while living in the Dominican Republic under...
One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard
In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper...
La inigualable Julia Alvarez, autora de En el tiempo de las mariposas y De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento, regresa con una extraordinaria e íntima novela que nos recuerda que las historias de vida jamás están realmente acabadas. Ni siquiera cuando llega el final.
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