Interview with Julia Alvarez
http://labloga.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-with-julia-alvarez.html
Julia Alvarez discusses her non-fiction work "Once Upon a Quinceañera." The book relates the stories of young women coming into maturity, and is interlaced with Alvarez's own musings about her adolescent struggles to define herself.
Julia Alvarez's personal website
Julia Alvarez discusses her background and her writing.
About the Trujillo Era
http://countrystudies.us/dominican-republic/11.htm
The U.S. Library of Congress’s account of the Trujillo era in the Dominican Republic.
Reading Guide on How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/garcia_girls.html
A reading guide with a summary of the novel, interview with Julia Alvarez, and questions for discussion.
Scholarly essay about ¡Yo!
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/b/bqYe9W/Luis.pdf
An article discussing ¡Yo!, Alvarez's sequel to How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. The novel focuses on Yolanda's life.
