Álvarez, Julia 1950-

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June 10, 1991

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Novelist Julia Alvarez on Being a Minority in America

Alvarez was born into a prosperous family in the Dominican Republic. When she was ten, her family moved to New York City. Alvarez's new novel, "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," is a semi-autobiographical work about the clash of cultures in her early life.

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