Now available in Spanish, the book "Horn Book" called "a realistic and compelling account of a girl growing up too quickly while coming to terms with the cost of freedom."
"I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don't have to fly away from your country?
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"A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez."
Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about Tia Lola, his quirky, "carismatica," and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the[...]

A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep "accident."[...]

Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged and wealthy, the family finds it hard to adjust to immigrant life in the Bronx, particularly their tou[...]

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[...]