| 13,563 (18,846) | 464 | 1,451 | (3.81) | 34 | 0 | Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950 and was raised in the Dominican Republic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she traveled across the country with poetry-in-the-schools programs and then taught at the high school level and the college level. In 1991, she earned tenure at Middlebury College and published her first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991. Her other works include In the Time of the Butterflies, The Other Side of El Otro Lado, and Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from In the Time of the Butterflies … (més) |
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Julia Alvarez té 12 esdeveniments ja passats. (show)  Northshire Saratoga Armchair Explorers Reading Group The Armchair Explorers Reading Group will meet at the Around the Corner Cafe on Tuesday, July 22nd at 6:30pm to discuss In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez. If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by The Northshire Bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount). We currently have so many excited readers that this group is full. For more information about the group or to be put on the waiting list please contact ReadingGroupsNY@northshire.com.
Location: Street: Around the Corner Cafe Additional: 422 Broadway City: Saratoga Springs, Province: New York Postal Code: 12866 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 Big Read: Meet the Author Participate in a video chat with Julia Alvarez! Students at Park and Terrill Middle Schools will discuss their reading with her through a school hookup at 1:00 pm. The entire community is invited to Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School at 7:00 pm for an open video chat. Julia Alvarez is the author of In the Time of Butterflies. (eromsted)
 Julia Alvarez "A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship" Julia Alvarez has been called “a one-woman cultural collision” by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships—with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager when Julia and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, Piti crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, charmed by his smile, has over the years come to think of him as a son, even promising to be at his wedding someday. When Piti calls in 2009, Julia’s promise is tested.
Bestselling novelist Alvarez reflects on the joys and burdens of love in A wedding in Haiti, a memoir that travels across borders. Her journey to Haiti for a friend's wedding, and a year later in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, opens Alvarez's eyes to the resilience of the human spirit.
Location: Street: 4869 Main St Additional: City: Manchester Center, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05255 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 Julia Alvarez- August 28 PLEASE NOTE: This event will take place in the gallery of the Hardwick Inn, just up the street at 4 South Main Street. The Galaxy welcomes author Julia Alvarez for a reading from her newest book, A wedding in Haiti. A memoir, A wedding in Haiti chronicles her journey to Haiti, first for the wedding of a friend, and then again after the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti in 2010. Ms. Alvarez will include photos and audio from her trip in her presentation.
Alvarez is the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies and a 2011 recipient of the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Currently a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, she also spends time on the sustainable farm-literacy center, Alta Gracia, that she founded with her husband in the Dominican Republic.
Location: Street: Hardwick Inn Additional: 4 S. Main Street City: Hardwick, Province: Vermont Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 Julia Alvarez -- A Wedding in Haiti -- Gables Julia Alvarez has been called "a one-woman cultural collision" by the "Los Angeles Times Book Review," and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships--with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager when Julia and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, Piti crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, charmed by his smile, has over the years come to think of him as a son, even promising to be at his wedding someday. When Piti calls in 2009, Julia's promise is tested. To Alvarez, much admired for her ability to lead readers deep inside her native Dominican culture, "Haiti is like a sister I've never gotten to know." And so we follow her across the border into what was once the richest of all the French colonies and now teeters on the edge of the abyss--first for the celebration of a wedding and a year later to find Piti's loved ones in the devastation of the earthquake.
In A wedding in Haiti (Algonquin, $22.95), as in all of Alvarez's books, a strong message is packed inside an intimate, beguiling story, this time about the nature of poverty and of wealth, of human love and of human frailty, of history and of the way we live now.
Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
Julia Alvarez, "A Wedding in Haiti" Join us for a luncheon with Julia Alvarez at the Union League Cafe! The honesty of this book is refreshing. Ms. Alvarez takes us on her journey of friendship and family and gives a rare look inside her life. Funny, candid, and beautifully written. A reminder for anyone of what it means to be human and compassionate. Julia Alvarez has been called “a one-woman cultural collision” by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships—with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager when Julia and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, Piti crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, charmed by his smile, has over the years come to think of him as a son, even promising to be at his wedding someday. When Piti calls in 2009, Julia’s promise is tested. To Alvarez, much admired for her ability to lead readers deep inside her native Dominican culture, “Haiti is like a sister I’ve never gotten to know.” And so we follow her across the border into what was once the richest of all the French colonies and now teeters on the edge of the abyss—first for the celebration of a wedding and a year later to find Piti’s loved ones in the devastation of the earthquake. As in all of Alvarez’s books, a strong message is packed inside an intimate, beguiling story, this time about the nature of poverty and of wealth, of human love and of human frailty, of history and of the way we live now. Location: Street: Union League Café Additional: 1032 Chapel Street City: New Haven, Province: Connecticut Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 Free Library of Philadelphia - Julia Alvarez - A Wedding in Haiti A wedding in Haiti Julia Alvarez Julia Alvarez writes lyrical, politically insightful works that reveal her passion for people who shape history. Born in New York and raised until the age of 10 in the Dominican Republic, she artfully renders “the threshold experiences of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory and the future remains an anxious dream” (New York Times Book Review). Alvarez is the author of the bestselling novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Saving the World, as well as several poetry collections and children’s books. A wedding in Haiti examines three of Alvarez’s most personal relationships, pivoting on her real-life promise to attend the wedding of a courageous Haitian teenager. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here
Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 Julia Alvarez discusses and signs A Wedding in Haiti At All Saints Church When Julia and her husband Bill first met Piti in 2001, he was a teenaged Haitian boy who had illegally crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, came to think of him as a son and promised to be at his wedding someday. In 2009, we follow her across the border into what was once the richest of all the French colonies, first for the celebration of a wedding and, another year later, to find Piti's loved ones in the devastation of the earthquake. As in all of Alvarez's books, a strong message is packed inside an intimate, beguiling story, this time about the nature of poverty and of wealth, of human love and of human frailty, of history and of the way we live now.
American fiction write and professor of English Helena Maria Viramontes will be joining Julia in a conversation about Julia’s latest book.
The discussion is free and open to the public. It takes place at All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101 in the Forum (downstairs in the building facing Euclid). Please keep our general signing guidelines in mind for this event: Those wishing to get books signed will be asked to purchase at least one copy of A wedding in Haiti from Vroman's for every 3 books they bring from home. Save your Vroman's receipt, as that will serve as your ticket for the signing line.
Location: Street: 132 N. Euclid City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
JULIA ALVAREZ Julia Alvarez , Return to Sender.JULIA ALVAREZ, author of a number of acclaimed adult novels, including In the Time of Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, signs her wonderful new book for younger readers, Return to Sender, a story of a farm family in Vermont who hire Mexican migrant workers to help save the farm from foreclosure. (booksense)
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| Biografia breu | Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua. From 2009 National Book Festival brochure: "Although Julia Alvarez was born in New York City, her family moved to the Dominican Republic shortly after birth, where she spent the majority of her childhood. In 1960, when she was 10, her family returned to the United States, fleeing the Dominican Republic because of her father's involvement in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the dictator Rafael Trujillo. Alvarez calls herself an American, yet her writing bridges the realms of Latina and American culture."  | |
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