Wedding in Haiti

Name: Wedding in Haiti
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ISBN: 9781616202804

ISBN-10: 1616202807

ISBN-13: 9781616202804

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Authors: Julia Alvarez

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Julia Alvarez has been called a one-woman cultural collision by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships—with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager when Julia and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, Piti crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, charmed by his smile, has over the years come to think of him as a son, even promising to be at his wedding someday. When Piti calls in 2009, Julia’s promise is tested.To Alvarez, much admired for her ability to lead readers deep inside her native Dominican…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 3/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Julia Alvarez is a writer and a poet. She was born in the Dominican Republic. Alvarez wrote novels and poetry including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and In the Time of the Butterflies. Her poetry is collected in the book The Other Side of El Otro Lado. Alverez won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991 for How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent and was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for In the Time of the Butterflies.