In the name of Salomé

By Julia Alvarez

Subjects: Biographical fiction, Women poets, Fiction, historical, general, Dominican Americans, Caribbean area, fiction, Fiction, Mothers and daughters

Description: Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution.