(Hardback)

This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them.

Reading Julia Alvarez reviews the author's acclaimed body of writing, exploring both the works and the woman behind them.

(Hardback)

Focusing primarily on fiction, this guide provides an overview of the young adult literature. It includes 32 chapters on particular themes of significance to young adults, including Abuse, Sexual Violence, and Healing; Families, Traditional and Redefined; Imagined Futures; Supernatural and Alien Beings: Confronting the Other; and War's Impact.