In the Name of Salome | Related Titles
During the 1980s, Alvarez became increasingly prolific in the genres of poetry, nonfiction prose, and the novel and continued to be productive throughout the 1990s. The Housekeeping Book (1984) was a handmade book of her housekeeping poems, parts of which she wrote while at Yaddo (a writer's retreat) where she began to discover her voice as a woman and as a Latina. Her first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), was followed by In The Time of the Butterflies (1994); The Other Side/El Otro Lado, a book of poems (1995); Homecoming: New and...
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