by Julia Alvarez · National Geographic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375726903
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In the summer of 1960, Camila Henríquez Ureña, a retired Spanish professor from Vassar University, prepares to move to Cuba and join Fidel Castro's revolution. Camila is the daughter of Salomé Ureña, the celebrated 19th-century Dominican poet, who through her revolutionary verses and her struggle for the education of girls, left an indelible legacy. Now, Camila seeks in her heritage the inspiration for her own call to revolution, while trying to unravel the life of a mother she never fully knew.
Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
