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The works of award-winning poet and novelist Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: 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. Since her first... read more
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When I was born, my mother wrote me down on the family tree, a second bough dangling from her branch which was attached to a great trunk which sunk down into roots sprung from the seeds of Spain and Africa, the latter never mentioned but expressed by darker faces in the family clan.
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- Julia Alvarez (Author)
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