Yo!, Julia Alvarez
Yo!, Julia Alvarez
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Yo!

Author: Julia Alvarez

Narrator: Luis Moreno, Alma Cuervo, Coral Pena

Unabridged: 10 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/28/2023


Synopsis

Yolanda García—Yo, for short—is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which she uses as characters practically everyone she knows, was a big success. Now she’s basking in the spotlight while those “characters” find their very recognizable selves dangling in that same blinding light. But turnabout is
fair play, and so here, Yolanda García’s family and friends tell the truth about Yo. Her three sisters, her Mami and Papi, her grandparents, tías, tíos, cousins, housemaids, her third husband: they take turns telling their side of the story, ripping into Yo and in the process creating their own endearing self-portraits.

At once funny and poignant, intellectual and gossipy, lighthearted and layered, ¡Yo! is above all a portrait of the artist. And with its bright colors, passion, and penchant for controversy, it’s a portrait that could come only from the palette of Julia Alvarez.

About Julia Alvarez

JULIA ALVAREZ vivió en República Dominicana hasta los diez años, cuando emigró con sus padres a los Estados Unidos. Es autora de varias novelas, obras de no ficción, poesía y literatura infantil y juvenil. Su prolífico trabajo le ha merecido importantes reconocimientos, entre ellos, el premio Latina Leader in Literature y el Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature. Fue nombrada Mujer del Año por la revista Latina y en 2013 el presidente Barack Obama le otorgó la Medalla Nacional de las Artes por su extraordinaria carrera. Sus bestsellers incluyen En el tiempo de las mariposas y De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on September 09, 2020

"What did he and this lady think? That money could buy the only thing the poor could have for free, their own children?" (255) Emerging as an actual very bright, very original, very nostalgi-romanti-storic. A bona fide portrait of a woman with many haters and lovers, a writer one easily begins to thi......more

Goodreads review by Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship on October 17, 2016

This is a fun read, in large part because of the format. Each chapter is told by a different character, revolving around one Yolanda Garcia (Yo for short), a writer whom we get to know in a delightful variety of ways: from her sister, her college professor, one of her several husbands, the caretaker......more

Goodreads review by Lara on November 12, 2012

This is another book that I didn't realize up front was a collection of short stories. They're all connected, all different peoples' stories and impressions of Yolanda Garcia, aka Yo. A couple of them I really liked (The teacher/romance; The caretakers/revelation), a few I really hated (The best fri......more

Goodreads review by Athira on September 05, 2011

Yolanda Garcia, or Yo, has just released a new book that has triggered a lot of angry reactions in her family. Even though Yo claims that it is fiction, each family member can identify themselves in some character of the book. They are frustrated, understandably, because their friends and acquaintan......more

Goodreads review by Ben on December 17, 2015

I enjoyed this book for all of its energy and contradicting stories but thought it kinda jumped off the rails in the final fifty pages or so. There are so many characters and perspectives that I started to lose track of who was who and then there's some inspired but confusing stream of consciousness......more