Corey Hendrickson
In Spanish we have a phrase whenever we welcome a visitor to our house,
Mi casa, su casa.
My house, your house.
My hope is that you find my website an inviting and (user) friendly place to learn more about my books, readings, events, and a little about me, the writer.
So bienvenidos, welcome to my website, your website.
Gracias and thank you for your visit.
This magnificently illustrated edition of the 1994 novel reintroduces readers to the Mirabal sisters and renders these historical figures as they’ve never been seen before. A longtime reader of Alvarez, illustrator Krystal Quiles has honored the literary icon’s portrayal of the sisters’ teenage years, their resistance against Trujillo’s rule, and their terror as their involvement in the revolution is revealed. This is a stunning rendition of a beloved classic, sure to captivate a new generation of readers.
Told with a storyteller’s intimacy and the comfort of a warm hearth, here is a master writer’s reflection on family, aging, love, the body, finding a voice, and the very act of poetry itself, experienced across the arc of decades—a collection in search of the author’s very essence, until “the way it sometimes happens: we arrive / where we were promised, belong to / what we longed for in ourselves, each other.”
“Julia Alvarez, you are first and foremost a poet, never more so than with Visitations. It is your own open-hearted letter to your past and future selves. I am forever your fan.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of Woman Without Shame
