Julia Alvarez on "A Cafecito Story"

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Julia Alvarez is best known for her novel "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents." Her new novella is called "A Cafecito Story: A Story of Love, Coffee, Birds and Hope." Alvarez tells Anne Strainchamps that she raises coffee on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and explains how it influences her writing. We also hear her read excerpts from her novella.