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Algonquin Books
May 2012
On Sale: April 24, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 1616201304
EAN: 9781616201302
Kindle: B0074QGDBS
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 culture, “Haiti is like a
sister I’ve never gotten to know.” And so we follow her
across the border into what was once the richest of all the
French colonies and now teeters on the edge of the
abyss—first for the celebration of a wedding and a year
later to find Piti’s loved ones in the devastation of the
earthquake. As in all of Alvarez’s books, a strong message
is packed inside an intimate, beguiling story, this time
about the nature of poverty and of wealth, of human love and
of human frailty, of history and of the way we live now.
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