Julia Alvarez traces rite-of-passage stories in ‘Quinceañera’
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Julia Alvarez, author of such brilliant novels as “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” and “In the Time of the Butterflies,” has in her latest book gone beyond books. “Once Upon a Quinceañera,” Alvarez’s exploration of a Latino girlhood-to-womanhood ceremony, is helping to create a new tradition.
In her novels, Alvarez makes every encounter, sight, choice and prop a sign in an individual’s journey to selfhood. Now, in her nonfiction foray, she engages teenagers inclined to employ the Spanish coming-of-age party to form a community of supporters (a “court”) and negotiate a perilous society.”*
*From: www.citizen-times.com
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