¡Hola!

Yolanda Garcia--her nickname is Yo--has proven herself a writer with a highly successful first novel whose "characters" are her family, friends, and lovers. While Yo enjoys her celebrity, her loved ones find themselves "naked" and recognizable to the world in their new public life.

What is the result? Those who were "victimized by fiction" want to tell their side of the story. And so they do in this one. Julia Alvarez's joyful, poignant, and well-conceived new novel, Yo! is about the conflict between art and reality, intellect and emotions, and acculturation in the United States and her own Dominican roots. Here, Yo's three sisters, her mother and father, her grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and husbands star in their versions of Yo's true life. Alvarez makes us believe them all and the indomitable Yo, whose creative impulse is rooted in her childhood memories and her two contrasting cultures.

Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 09/01/1999
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780452281400
ISBN10: 0452281407
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General
- Fiction | Women

About the Author
Julia Alvarez is the author of the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies (a national Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Yo!. She has also published two poetry collections (Homecoming and The Other side/El Otro Lado) and a collection of essays (Something to Declare).

Julia Álvarez es la autora de De cómo las chicas García perdieron el acento, En el tiempo de las mariposas (un finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award) y ¡Yo!. También ha publicado dos colecciones de poesía y una colección de ensayos. Julia Álvarez vive en Vermont y en República Dominicana, donde dirige una cooperativa de café orgánico, y un centro de alfabetización y arte con su esposo.