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A wedding in Haiti

The popular author talks about three of her most personal relationships--with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alvarez, Julia
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Alvarez, Julia > Friends and associates. Alvarez, Julia > Travel > Haiti. Authors, Dominican > 21st century > Biography. Haitians > Dominican Republic > Biography.
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Summary:	The popular author talks about three of her most personal relationships--with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti.
Item Description:	"Shannon Ravenel book."
Physical Description:	287 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:	9781616201302 1616201304
Author Notes:	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)