Saving the World

Name: Saving the World
Author: Julia Alvarez

by Julia Alvarez

Time-spanning narrative exploring women's agency and human rights

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Julia Alvarez

Dominican-American novelist and poet whose fiction explores the lives of women navigating dictatorship, immigration, and identity. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is a landmark of Latina literature. Her work blends personal and political history with lyrical grace.

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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their AccentsDominican sisters adjust to life in America after dictatorship exile
In the Time of the ButterfliesFictionalized account of the Mirabal Sisters who opposed Dominican tyranny
Yo!Novel told through multiple perspectives across different time periods
In the Name of SalomeBiographical fiction of Dominican poet Salome Urena and her family