Word: alvarezes
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...construction of a building on Arosa Island in Galicia, just 20 m from the sea, where wealthy people will end up owning luxury flats. Consequently I believe she does not deserve to be on the list of heroes as her policies are not equal for all. Pablo Candela Alvarez, ALICANTE, SPAIN...
During the event, co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library’s Cambridge READS program and the Harvard Book Store, Alvarez told the audience about the impact literature has had on her life...
...author of five collections of poetry and five books—including “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”—Alvarez related the factors that shaped her evolution as an writer. She described her family fleeing from the dictatorial regime in their native Dominican Republic, as well as the subsequent struggle to find her identity and voice as a young immigrant to America...
...Alvarez said that she had originally doubted her ability to become an American writer, and cited Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too, Sing America” as giving her the courage to write...
...Today, Alvarez will speak to the students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where her novel was on the summer reading list...