by Julia Alvarez · Plume Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780452287075
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In this moving novel, Julia Alvarez tells the story of the García sisters, who are forced to flee their native Dominican Republic after an attempted coup. Adapting to a new life in the Bronx, New York, the four sisters struggle to balance their cultural roots with American influences, exploring themes of identity, family, and adaptation in a challenging environment. The novel captures the experiences of these young Latinas as they navigate culture shock and seek their place in the world.
Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
