by Julia Alvarez · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420441269
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¡Yo! is a novel by Julia Alvarez that follows Yolanda, a writer who has published intimate details of her family as fiction, causing controversy. The novel explores identity, family, and the lives of immigrants, offering a lyrical look at the search for a place in the world. The characters offer their perspectives on Yo's life, revealing different facets of her soul and her experience as a writer.
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.
