Algonquin Books; Todd Balfour for Middlebury College Julia Alvarez — the celebrated author ... the mother who's on her death bed or something, but not enough about the granular, cellular ...

Upon her father’s death, she inherits a plot of land in a ... novel in the world of the novel itself. And it is. But Alvarez’s genius is such that the novel’s cleverness is so far ...

Her father was a chief surgeon, which gave her family financial comfort. But their political exile to Queens, New York, in 1960 would have a profound effect on her upbringing. Now, a PBS ...

Julia Alvarez, Author, Daphne Rubin-Vega ... Antonia Vega is reeling from the sudden death of her husband, Sam, who suffered an aneurysm The uplifting latest from Alvarez (Afterlife) follows ...