Julia Alvarez has written novels (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,
In the Time of the Butterfiles, Yo!, In the Name of Salome, Saving the
World, Afterlife), collections of poems (Homecoming, The Other Side/El Otro
Lado, The Woman I kepy to Myself), nonfiction (Something to Declare, Once
Upon A Quinceanera), and numerous books for young readers (the Tia Lola
Stories series and more).