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The Reader’s Notebook: Julia Alvarez

Published March 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM EDT

Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Yo!.