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  <name><![CDATA[Julia Alvarez]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Julia Alvarez was born in New York City. Her parents moved back to the Dominican Republic when Alvarez was 3 months old and she was raised there until she was 10, when the family moved back to NYC. 

She is currently writer-in-residence at Middlebury College and the owner of a coffee farm named Alta Gracia, near Jarabacoa in the mountains of the Dominican Republic. The farm hosts a school to teach local farmers and their families how to read and write.]]></about>      <hometown>New York, New York</hometown>  <born_at>03/27/1950</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[In the Time of the Butterflies]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[In the Name of Salome]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Yo!: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Saving the World]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Before We Were Free]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[How Tia Lola Came to Stay]]></title>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Something to Declare]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Julia Alvarez]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Finding Miracles]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Julia Alvarez]]></name>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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