Julia Alvarez: 5 most important books

Julia Alvarez grew up in the Dominican Republic before emigrating to the United States at the age of 10.She is the award-winning author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, ¡Yo!, Once Upon a Quinceañera, and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, In the Time of the Butterflies.For Newsweek, she named her five most important books, choosing the one book that mattered most in