Julie A Alvarez

Secrets of Salsa: A Bilingual Cookbook

Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years...

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julie Alvarez | Summary & Study Guide

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Study Guide consists of approx. 44 pages of summaries and analysis on How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julie Alvarez.This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Sty...

The Other Side/El Otro Lado

La revisión de libro de los tiempos de Nueva York ha elogiado la ficción de Alvarez's mientras que "powerful... captura maravillosamente la experiencia del umbral del nuevo inmigrante donde no está todavía una memoria el pasado y el futuro sigue siendo un dream." ansioso; Estas mismas calidades cara...

Every Room Tells a Story: Tales from the Pages of Nest Magazine

Description: Every Room Tells a Story offers the most interesting and provocative interiors published to date in the first 12 issues of the widely acclaimed interiors and design magazine, nest. Called, among other things, "Homes and Gardens for the decadent and deranged" (Wallpaper), the special che...

In the Time of the Butterflies

It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it ex...