Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined

Julia Alvarez is the author of seven novels, three collections of poetry, a dozen books for children, and a book of autobiographical essays. Her acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel How the García Sisters Lost Their Accents (1991) was followed by In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), which raised global awareness about the murder of three sisters in the Dominican Republic by the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Based on a true story, the book was made into a major motion picture.

Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined Alvarez’s immortalizes Alvarez’s contribution to the American literary canon. Alvarez’s work dramatizes the immigrant’s perspective in America from her vantage point as a Dominican American woman whose family sought refuge in the United States. She connects the personal and the political through universal themes—from coming of age to growing older, from finding one’s voice to facing grief and loss.