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Article: THREE DOMINICAN SISTERS - A TALE FROM THE HEART.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 16, 1994
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Byline: MARGARIA FICHTNER
Many bittersweet lessons are tucked among the pages of this mesmerizing second novel from Dominican-born Julia Alvarez: lessons about the courage and vitality of the female spirit; lessons about the webs and tangles that bind families; lessons about piety and activism, loyalty and fear, faith and love. But the most painful lesson, the one that still scrapes the soul long after the book is tucked back on the shelf, is this: There can be no worse prison than the past, no harsher judge than memory.
Much as Alvarez's admired first novel, ``How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,'' bore the unmistakable stamp of memoir, this ...