Tag: Bestselling
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Bestselling author Julia Alvarez is the subject of a new PBS documentary
Alvarez reflected on how it took her a while to understand the traumas of a dictatorship through her parents. “They were always so afraid of us speaking up, and always suspicious, and it helped me to understand them and their generation,” she said. “The trauma, even after the dictator dies, a people is traumatized; the…