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It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful,
convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at
the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican
Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths
as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor
does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents
of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have
to. Everyone knows of Las Mariposas - "The Butterflies." Now, three
decades later, Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican
Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a
tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell
their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through
fiction. In this brilliantly characterized novel, the voices of all
four sisters - Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede - speak
across the decades, to tell their own stories - from hair ribbons
to gunrunning to prison torture - and to describe the everyday
horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. The Butterflies were
extraordinary women. Minerva, once the object of the dictator's
desire, had dared to publicly slap his face. Devout Patria found
her calling to the uprising through the church. Alluring - and vain
- Maria Teresa joined in pursuit of romance. Only Dede, the
practical one, the most diligent in her duty to family and
tradition, kept apart. And only she survived to see that their
names were remembered. Now, through the art and magic of Julia
Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again. And
Dede joins them as a heroine of equal courage.
Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four
Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New
York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel
existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left
behind. What they have lost - and what they find - is revealed in
the fifteen interconnected stories that make up this exquisite
novel from one of the premier novelists of our time.
Just as it is a feature of the immigrant experience to always
look back, the novel begins with thirty-nine-year-old Yolanda's
return to the island and moves magically backward in time to the
final days before the exile that is to transform the sisters'
lives. Along the way we witness their headlong plunge into the
American mainstream. Although the girls try to distance themselves
from their island life by ironing their hair, forgetting their
Spanish, and meeting boys unchaperoned, they remain forever caught
between the old world and the new. With bright humor and rare
insight, Julia Alvarez vividly evokes the tensions and joys of
belonging to two distinct cultures in a novel that is utterly
authentic and full of irrepressible spirit.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman
ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her
contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of
Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught
intellectual rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City
during the Spanish Golden Age. The volume includes Sor Juana's
best-known works, including "First Dream", which showcases her
prodigious intellect and range and "Response of the Poet to the
Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz", her epistolary feminist
defence of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other
works are also included.
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The Garcias-Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their
four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia-belong to the
uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the
conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the "palacio" of the
dictator's daughter. So when Dr. Garcia's part in a coup attempt is
discovered, the family must flee.
They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from
their existence in the Dominican Republic. Papi has to find new
patients in the Bronx. Mami, far from the compound and the family
retainers, must find herself. Meanwhile, the girls try to "lose"
themselves-by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair
and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once
liberating and excruciating being caught between the old world and
the new, trying to live up to their father's version of honor while
accommodating the expectations of their American boyfriends.
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's brilliant and buoyant first novel
sets the Garcia girls free to tell their most intimate stories
about how they came to be at home-and not at home-in America.
Miguel Guzman isn't exactly looking forward to the summer now that
his mother has agreed to let the Sword family--a father, his three
daughters, and their dog--live with them while they decide whether
or not to move to Vermont. Little does Miguel know his aunt has
something up her sleeve that just may make this the best summer
ever. With her usual flair for creativity and fun, Tia Lola decides
to start a summer camp for Miguel, his little sister, and the three
Sword girls, complete with magical swords, nighttime treasure
hunts, campfires, barbecues, and an end-of-summer surprise
The warm and funny third book in the Tia Lola Stories is sure to
delight young readers and leave them looking forward to their own
summer fun
"From the Hardcover edition."
The Garc as Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their
four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sof a belong to the
uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the
conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the "palacio" of the
dictator 's daughter. So when Dr. Garc a 's part in a coup attempt
is discovered, the family must flee.
They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from
their existence in the Dominican Republic. Papi has to find new
patients in the Bronx. Mami, far from the compound and the family
retainers, must find herself. Meanwhile, the girls try to "lose"
themselves by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair
and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once
liberating and excruciating being caught between the old world and
the new, trying to live up to their father 's version of honor
while accommodating the expectations of their American boyfriends.
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez 's brilliant and buoyant first novel
sets the Garc a girls free to tell their most intimate stories
about how they came to be at home and not at home in America.
Sor Juana (1651 1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her
time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public
intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and
"the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An
illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite,
she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during
the Spanish Golden Age.
This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First
Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious
intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent
Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defense evocative
of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson of a woman's right to
study and to write. Thirty other works playful ballads,
extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from
an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor are also
included."
A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez.
Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about! Tía Lola, his quirky, carismática, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the Dominican Republic to help out his Mami. Like her stories for adults, Julia Alvarez’s first middle-grade book sparkles with magic as it illuminates a child’s experiences living in two cultures.
"Un libro importante...emocionalmente sobrecogedor. Alvarez nos
hace un regalo cargado de rara generosidad y coraje."-The San Diego
Union-Tribune In 1960 in the Dominican Republic, four young women
from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their
husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The
Mirabal sisters became mythical figures in their country, where
they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades
later, Alvarez brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in an
extraordinary novel. Ellas eran las cuatro hermanas
Mirabal-simbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un pais
ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperacion. Sacrificaron sus
vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad. Ellas
eran "las Mariposas," y en esta novela extraordinaria, Patria,
Minerva, Maria Teresa, y Dede nos cuentan, a traves de las decadas,
sus propias historias. Desde anecdotas sobre lazos para el pelo y
secretos enamoramientos al contrabando de armas y las torturas en
la carcel. Con ellas aprendemos los horrores cotidianos de la vida
bajo el dictador dominicano Trujillo. A traves del arte y la magia
de la aclamada e imaginativa novelista Julia Alvarez, la dramatica
y vibrante vida de estas martirizadas mariposas toma forma en una
historia calida, brillante y desgarradora en la que se nos muestra
el incalculable coste humando derivado de la opresion politica. "Un
regalo de amor sinfonico y esplendido...un magnifico tesoro para
todas las culturas y todos los tiempos...una novela que celebra la
corriente de vida que fluye entre las mujeres, conectandolas y
dandolas coraje para luchar por la justicia y la resistencia, y
corazones para amar y perdonar libremente...Julia Alvarez es una
escritora asombrosa."-St. Petersburg Times "Maravilloso...una
narracion enriquecedora...entrelaza habilmente la realidad y la
ficcion hasta alcanzar un sobrecogedor climax."-Newsweek "Una
novela con un tremendo poder... un libro bello y valiente."-West
Coast Review of Books
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family
is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their
Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of
these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three
daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her
Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life.
Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the
authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in
Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their
differences?
In a novel full of hope, but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves
a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after
they finish it.
"From the Hardcover edition."
The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the
language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican
Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and
adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped
her life. In these seventy-five autobiographical poems, Alvarez 's
clear voice sings out in every line. Here, in the middle of her
life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebrating the
woman she has become.
Cuando las hermanas Garcia --Carla, Sandra, Yolanda y Sofia-- y sus
padres huyen de la Republica Dominicana buscando refugio de la
persecucion politica, encuentran un nuevo hogar en los Estados
Unidos. Pero el Nueva York de los anos sesenta es marcadamente
diferente de la vida privilegiada, aunque conflictiva, que han
dejado atras. Bajo la presion de asimilarse a una nueva cultura,
las muchachas Garcia se alisan el pelo, abandonan la lengua
espanola y se encuentran con muchachos sin una chaperona. Pero por
mas que intentan distanciarse de su isla natal, las hermanas no
logran desprender el mundo antiguo del nuevo.
Lo que las hermanas han perdido para siempre --y lo que logran
encontrar-- se revela en esta novela magistral de una de las
novelistas mas celebradas de nuestros tiempos.
Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez was writing poetry that gave a distinctive voice to the Latina woman-and helped give to American letters a vibrant new literary form. Homecoming, was Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic. Now this revised and expanded edition adds thirteen new poems. These more recent writings are still deeply autobiographical in nature, but written with the edgier, more knowing tone of a woman who has seen, and survived, more of life. Wonderfully lucid and engaging, toned with deep emotionality and a wry observation of life, the poems of Julia Alvarez stand next to her fiction to both delight us and give us lessons in living and loving.
This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump-about much more
than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense
of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election,
since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes.
There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-two
poets featured include Juan Felipe Herrera, Richard Blanco, Carolyn
Forche, Patricia Smith, Robert Pinsky, Donald Hall, Elizabeth
Alexander, Ocean Vuong, Marge Piercy, Yusef Komunyakaa, Brian
Turner, and Naomi Shihab Nye. They speak of persecuted and
scapegoated immigrants. They bear witness to violence: police
brutality against African Americans, mass shootings in a school or
synagogue. They testify to poverty, the waitress surviving on
leftovers at the restaurant, the battles of a teacher in a shelter
for homeless mothers, the emergency-room doctor listening to the
heartbeats of his patients. There are voices of labor, in the
factory and the fields. There are prophetic voices, imploring us to
imagine the world we will leave behind in ruins lest we speak and
act. However, this is not merely a collection of grievances. The
poets build bridges. One poet steps up to translate in Arabic at
the airport; another declaims a musical manifesto after the
hurricane that devastated his island; another evokes a
demonstration in the street, an ecstasy of defiance, the joy of
resistance. The poets take back the language, resisting the
demagogic corruption of words themselves. They assert our common
humanity.
Julia Alvarez's heartwarming novel--now in Spanish.
Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to
worry about Tia Lola, his quirky, "carismatica, " and maybe magical
aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from
the Dominican Republic to help out his Mami. Like her stories for
adults, Julia Alvarez's first middle-grade book sparkles with magic
as it illuminates a child's experiences living in two cultures.
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