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Book Nut (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
by Julia Alvarez age: adult Look, a non-Cybil's book! (And an adult one at that!) I've been reading this at nights (by eliminating my TV watching -- only one hour of the John Adams miniseries and a 1/2 hour 30 Rock this week...) for my on-line book group. It wasn't earth shattering, but I did like parts of it. The four Garcia girls are the daughters and granddaughters of a fairly powerful clan in the...
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Chasing Ray (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Julia Alvarez on living in small town Vermont : "What holds us all together is unspoken, sturdy and as deep as the limestone and marble once quarried from our hills. A love and respect for the land'??that's our abiding bond." The Daily Coyote is a book! From the PW interview with author Shreve Stockton: "I'm not trying to promote [coyotes] as the new designer pet. I have been e-mailed by people who...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Julia Alvarez's best-selling 1991 novel of acculturation, "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," is translated for the stage by Mexican-born local playwright Karen Zacarias with such broad, dedicated strokes that you miss the details that stipple the emotional landscape of four very different Latinas.
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Who could blame the Garcia girls for not knowing which way to turn? As novelist Julia Alvarez first revealed in her well-received 1991 novel, "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents," the sisters were wrenched from circumscribed, privileged childhoods in Rafael Trujillo's repressive Dominican...
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Transpontine (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
'Deptford X presents Ghost Trade and the Spectre of Change, 26 September – 19 October 2008 (Thu – Sun), 4 weeks of contemporary visual art in SE8 celebrating 10 years of Deptford X. Marking a seminal time in Deptford’s history, curator Julia Alvarez draws out the different aspects of trade associated with Deptford and the marks and symbols these trades leave behind through an extensive programme of...
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Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Author Julia Alvarez traces the ancient Aztec rite that has become an elaborate fiesta in the U.S., celebrating a Latina girl's passage into womanhood on her 15th birthday.
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bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
Above, the headline of an article that appeared in the September, 2007 issue of Condé Nast Traveler. "Here, our all-star literary jury: André Aciman, Monica Ali, Julia Alvarez, Tom Bissell, Geraldine Brooks, Vikram Chandra, Jim Crace, Jared Diamond, Linh Dinh,...
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