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Alvarez pens a simple story of a man, a new life, and struggling to survive. Includes woodcuts by Belkis Ramirez, an artist from the Dominican Republic

En un isla no muy lejana, en una época no muy distante, había una tribu de criaturas llamadas ciguapas. Vivían en frescas cuevas azules en el fondo del mar y salían a la tierra solamente de noche en busca de alimentos. Afortunadamente, tenían un secreto que las protegía de los seres humanos: tenían los pies al revés, así nadie podía seguirles las huellas. Pero una vez, casi descubren su secreto . . . La galardonado escritora Julia Alvarez teje...

When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes Tia Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.

The New York Times Book Review has praised Alvarez's fiction as "powerful...beautifully captures the experience of the new immigrant's doorway where a memory is not yet the past and the future is still a dream." These same qualities characterize her poetry-from the "Making Up the Past" poems, which explore a life of exile as lived by a young girl, to "The Joe Poems, " a series of beautifully sensual and funny love poems that celebrate a middle...

From the author of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" and "In the Time of Butterflies" comes an epic and intimate novel about two generations of Dominican women and their personal impact on history.

Homecoming is 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. 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...