{"product_id":"the-woman-i-kept-to-myself-9781616200725","title":"The Woman I Kept to Myself","description":"The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. In these seventy-five autobiographical poems, Alvarez's clear voice sings out in every line. Here, in the middle of her life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebrating the woman she has become.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-6281\"\u003eJulia Alvarez\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shannon Ravenel Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781616200725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1616200723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. A novelist, poet, and essayist, she is the author of nineteen books, including \u003ci\u003eHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies--\u003c\/i\u003ea National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Selection--\u003ci\u003eYo!, Something to Declare, In the Name of Salome, Saving the\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld, A Wedding in Haiti, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Woman I Kept to Myself\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including the 2013 National Medal of Arts, a Latina Leader Award in Literature in 2007 from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the 2002 Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the 2000 Woman of the Year by \u003ci\u003eLatina\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's 1996 program \"The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.\" A writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, Alvarez and her husband, Bill Eichner, established Alta Gracia, an organic coffee farm-literacy arts center, in her homeland, the Dominican Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shannon Ravenel Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42704763420909,"sku":"9781616200725","price":21.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_4a3e9979-b429-4d41-95fa-a9378cbb5f00.jpg?v=1650003390","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-woman-i-kept-to-myself-9781616200725","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}