Julia Alvarez's six favorite books

Julia Alvarez grew up in the Dominican Republic before emigrating to the United States at the age of 10.

Her books include How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, ¡Yo!, Once Upon a Quinceañera, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist In the Time of the Butterflies, and the newly released A Wedding in Haiti, a memoir about cross-cultural friends.

One of her six favorite books, as told