Julia Alvarez
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.
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Afterlife
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2020
Return to sender
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2009
En Busca de Milagros
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2006
Saving the world
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2005
Antes de ser libres
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2004
Cuando Tia Lola Vino (de Visita) A Quedarse
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2004
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
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2002
A Cafecito Story
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2001
How Tía Lola came to visit stay
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2001
In the name of Salomé
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2000
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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1999
Yo!
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1998
Yo!
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1997
In the Time of the Butterflies
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1994
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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1992
How the García girls lost their accents
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1991