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Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA
by Julia Alvarez, New York : Viking, 2007

Call Number New Book Area GT2490 .A45 2007

Once Upon a Quinceañera, is a well researched book about the celebration of a girl's coming of age, bestselling novelist Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and In the Time of the Butterflies, studies the ancient ritual that unites the U.S. Latino community and is rapidly evolving and spreading across ethnic lines.

The book's most appealing moments come from Alvarez's descriptive look at the craziness surrounding the day of the event and from her own recollections of growing up in the same area in Queens where she follows one family through this experience.

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