Once Upon a Quinceanera by Julia Alvarez audiobook

Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA

By Julia Alvarez
Read by Daphne Rubin-Vega

Penguin Audio 9780143142195
9.19 Hours Unabridged
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    ISBN: 9781429586221

The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, examines the parties and preparations of the quincea–era.

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A 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award

The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, examines the parties and preparations of the quincea–era.

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Author Bio: Julia Alvarez

Author Bio: Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez grew up in the Dominican Republic before immigrating to the United States at the age of ten. She now lives in Vermont, where she is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, Vermont.

Julia Álvarez vivió su infancia en República Dominicana hasta 1960, cuando emigró a los Estados Unidos. Luego de obtener sus títulos de pregrado y postgrado en literatura y creación literaria, enseñó poesía durante muchos años y publicó su primer libro de poemas, Homecoming, en 1984. Ha recibido becas del Fondo Nacional para las Artes y de la Fundación Ingram Merrill. De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento recibió el premio PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles en 1991, que se entrega a obras que presentan un punto de vista multicultural. En la actualidad, enseña literatura inglesa en Middlebury College.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 9.19
Audience: Adult
Language: English