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A wedding in Haiti : the story of friendship Julia Alvarez.
- Description: 287 p. : ill., ports. ; 19 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2012.
- ISBN: 9781616201302 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 1616201304(hardcover) :
Available copies
- 10 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 11 total copies.
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly Main | Adult Nonfiction | PS 3551 .L845 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Gloucester | Adult Nonfiction | 920/ALVAREZ (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Marblehead | Adult Biography | NEW BIO ALVAREZ, JULIA 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Melrose | New Books (Browsing Room) | 818.54 Alvarez (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| North Shore - Danvers Campus | Stacks | PS 3551 .L845 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Northern Essex - Haverhill Campus | Stacks | PS3551 .L845 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Checked out | 05/28/2013 |
| Peabody Main | Adult Nonfiction | NEW PS 3551 .L845 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Reading | Adult Nonfiction | B ALVAREZ ALV (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Salem | Adult Biography | B/ALVAREZ, J./A (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Swampscott | Lower Level | 818.24 A (Text to phone) | Available | - |
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| Summary: | In this book the author talks about three of her most personal relationships, with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager when she and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, Piti crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Impressed by his courage, charmed by his smile, the author has over the years come to think of him as a son, even promising to be at his wedding someday. When Piti calls in 2009, her promise is tested. To the author, much admired for her ability to lead readers deep inside her native Dominican culture, "Haiti is like a sister I've never gotten to know." Here she takes us on a journey into experiences that challenge our way of thinking about history and how it can be reimagined when people from two countries, traditional enemies and strangers, become friends. We follow her across the border into Haiti, once the richest of all the French colonies and now teeters on the edge of the abyss, first for the celebration of a wedding and a year later to find Piti's loved ones in the devastation of the earthquake. A strong message is packed inside this story, this time about the nature of poverty and of wealth, of human love and of human frailty, of history and of the way we live now. |
| Notes: | "Shannon Ravenel book." |
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