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Yolanda Garcia--su apodo es Yo--ha demostrado que es una escritora con una muy exitosa primera novela cuyos "personajes" son su familia, sus amigos y sus amantes. Mientras Yo goza de su celebridad, sus seres queridos se encuentran "desnudos" y reconocibles ante el mundo en su nueva vida publica.

Cual es el resultado? Aquellos que fueron "victimizados por la ficcion" quieren contar su lado de la historia. Y asi mismo lo hacen en esta. La nueva novela de Julia Alvarez, alegre, conmovedora y bien concebida, Yo! se trata del conflicto entre el arte y la realidad, el intelecto y las emociones, y el aculturamiento en los Estados Unidos y sus propias raices dominicanas. Aqui, las tres hermanas de Yo, su mama y su papa, sus abuelos, tias, tios, primos y esposos protagonizan sus versiones de la verdadera vida de Yo. Alvarez hace que les creamos a todos y la indomable Yo, cuyo impulso creativo esta arraigado en sus recuerdos infantiles y sus dos contrastantes culturas.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Prologue
• The sisters--fiction(p. 3)
• Part I
• The mother--nonfiction(p. 21)
• The cousin--poetry(p. 36)
• The maid's daughter--report(p. 54)
• The teacher--romance(p. 73)
• The stranger--epistle(p. 97)
• Part II
• The caretakers--revelation(p. 113)
• The best friend--motivation(p. 132)
• The landlady--confrontation(p. 152)
• The student--variation(p. 170)
• The suitor--resolution(p. 187)
• Part III
• The wedding guests--point of view(p. 213)
• The night watchman--setting(p. 241)
• The third husband--characterization(p. 258)
• The stalker--tone(p. 277)
• The father--conclusion(p. 292)

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Library Journal Review

Offerings in fiction represent a fine mix, from titles already published here in English (the works by Alvarez, Bencastro, Escand¢n, and Ferr‚) to works due in English this fall (Allende's first fiction in many years) to Fuentes's latest, a recapitulation of 20th-century Mexico centered on the passionate and provocative Laura Diaz. Arte P£blico continues its fine effort to restore lost Hispanic classics, written in what is now the United States from the colonial era until today, with a tale by Venegas dating from 1928. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 9^-adult. Alvarez's animated, wonderfully humorous style is now available to Spanish speakers in this fluid Spanish rendition that tells about Yolanda Garcia, the now famous and most artistic of the four little girls who emigrated from the Dominican Republic to New York City in the 1950s. Brief episodes, each with a different narrator--Yolanda's mother, her best friend, a suitor, and others^-talk about Yo, the sister who always had to be center stage. Adolescents will see the way Yo's sexual behavior conflicted with "proper" Garcia family sensibilities, as well as the exile Yo felt and the inconsistencies she discovered in life.

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950 and was raised in the Dominican Republic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she traveled across the country with poetry-in-the-schools programs and then taught at the high school level and the college level. In 1991, she earned tenure at Middlebury College and published her first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991. Her other works include In the Time of the Butterflies, The Other Side of El Otro Lado, and Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA.

(Bowker Author Biography)