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This 90-minute documentary explores the work and life of poet and novelist Julia Alvarez, who blazed a trail for a generation of Latino authors.
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With her novels, How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies, Dominican American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez burst onto the literary scene and blazed a trail for a generation of Latino authors
This 90-minute documentary film opens a window into her extraordinary journey from her childhood in the Dominican Republic to a life of exile in New York City to a brilliant literary career that shows no sign of slowing down.
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