BOOKISH: Julia Alvarez, Apocalypse and the Politics of Pot

This week in bookish: Julia Alvarez comes to town, Penn opens an exhibit on the Mayan 2012 prediction and the library hosts a dope talk about the politics of pot

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BOOKISH: Julia Alvarez, Apocalypse and the Politics of Pot

POSTED: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:00 PM

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A Wedding in Haiti

Raised between the New York City of the 1960s and the Dominican Republic under Trujillo's harsh dictatorship, author Julia Alvarez has inspired readers with stories of the interesting and unexpected results of cultural hybridity. As a ten-yr-old in the NYC school system, English was an obstacle Alvarez was forced to overcome. Now decades into her writing career, Alvarez is a master of words, carefully collaging them into poems and novels that have earned her widespread literary recognition. Her most recent book, A Wedding in Haiti, is perhaps her most personal book to date, chronicling the story of her relationship with a young Haitian boy named Piti. Alvarez met Piti when he made the dangerous yet common decision to cross the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Alone in a foreign country, Piti was comforted by Alvarez' promise that he would one day return home to find the Haitian girl of his dreams and that she would be there in Haiti to attend his wedding. With all the layered emotion that she brought to In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez' story is a compelling account of friendship, loyalty and perseverance.

7:30 p.m., $15, FLP Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., libwww.freelibrary.org/authorevents

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