{"title":"Julia Alvarez","description":"Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program \"The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.\" In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling. In 2024, she was profiled in the American Masters documentary, \"Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined,\" on PBS.","products":[{"product_id":"the-cemetery-of-untold-stories-paperback","title":"The Cemetery of Untold Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreat American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHow the Garc?a Girls Lost Their Accents\u003c\/i\u003e, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Only an alchemist as wise and sure as Alvarez could swirl the elements of folklore and the flavor of magical realism around her modern prose and make it all sing . . . Lively, joyous . . . often witty, occasionally somber and elegiac.\" --Luis Alberto Urrea, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Engaging and written in a playful, crystal-clear prose, this novel explores friendship, love, sisterhood, living between cultures, and how people can be haunted by the things they don't finish . . . Entertaining . . . Heartwarming.\" --Gabino Iglesias, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e **Named a Most Anticipated Book by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Today.com, Goodreads, \u003ci\u003eB\u0026amp;N Reads\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHipLatina\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e, BBC.com, Zibby Mag, and more** \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of \u003ci\u003eThe Cemetery of Untold Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. \u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas and soon begin to defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener to the secret tales unspooled by Alma's characters. Among them, Bienvenida, dictator Rafael Trujillo's abandoned wife who was erased from the official history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cemetery of Untold Stories \u003c\/i\u003easks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories. Julia Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101155561695,"sku":"9781643756073","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Gf4U1EqioG9781643756073.webp?v=1781068367"},{"product_id":"in-the-time-of-the-butterflies-paperback","title":"In the Time of the Butterflies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1994, is \"beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo.\" (Concepción de León, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like\u003ci\u003e In the Time of the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents\u003c\/i\u003e winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas.\"--Francisco Cantú, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent.\" --Popsugar.com \u003cbr\u003e \"A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSt. Petersburg Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed.\"--Cosmopolitan.com\u003c\/b\u003e 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 explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies. \u003cbr\u003e In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101634891999,"sku":"9781565129764","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UUdHb0ZDWmtncTNhdTZOaHZhd1lqZz09.webp?v=1781071866"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/julia-alvarez.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}