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Knowledge is Power!
“In this fascinating, exhaustively researched book about the celebration of a girls coming of age, bestselling novelist Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and In the Time of the Butterflies, studies the ancient ritual that unites the U.S. Latino community and is rapidly evolving and spreading across ethnic lines.
The quinceañera party, with its throng of family and friends, shines a happy light on the 15-year-old Latina as she moves from childhood to womanhood. The obligatory ingredients — a familys nostalgic memories of her growing up, a priests blessing, the court of friends in tuxedos and gowns, the opening dance with her father — immerses a Latina girl in the fantasy that she is a princess, if only for one day.”
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