How Tia Lola Came to

By Julia Alvarez

Before we were free

By Julia Alvarez

In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

Las huellas secretas

By Julia Alvarez

The secret footprints

By Julia Alvarez

A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.

De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

By Julia Alvarez

Cuando las hermanas García —Carla, Sandra, Yolanda y Sofía— y sus padres huyen de la República Dominicana buscando refugio de la persecución política,...

Saving the world

By Julia Alvarez

In de naam van Salome

By Julia Alvarez

Roman waarin de 65-jarige professor Camilla terugkijkt op haar leven en dat van haar dominerende moeder en haar onuitgesproken liefde voor een vrouw. Op 65-jarige leeftijd reconstrueert een Domini...

In de tijd van de vlinders

By Julia Alvarez

Het leven van de drie zusters Mirabal die zich verzetten tegen de dictatuur van generaal Trujillo op de Dominicaanse Republiek en dit met de dood moeten bekopen.

Return to sender

By Julia Alvarez

After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the co...

How Tia Lola Lola learned to teach

By Julia Alvarez

Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tía Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that...