Books by Julia Alvarez

  • A Cafecito Story

  • Julia Alvarez; Illustrations by Belkis Ramírez, Afterword by Bill Eichner, M.D.
  • Paperback
  • With lyric simplicity, A Cafecito Story tells the complex tale of how a small cup of dark, rich, potent coffee can bridge nations and unite people in trade, in words, in birds, and in love.

  • A Cafecito Story

  • Julia Alvarez; Illustrations by Belkis Ramírez, Foreword by Bill Eichner, M.D.
  • Hardcover
  • With lyric simplicity, A Cafecito Story tells the complex tale of how a small cup of dark, rich, potent coffee can bridge nations and unite people in trade, in words, in birds, and in love.

  • A Cafecito Story | El Cuento del Cafecito

  • Julia Alvarez; Illustrations by Belkis Ramírez, Foreword by Bill Eichner, M.D.
  • Paperback
  • The lyric story of how a small cup of exceptional coffee can bridge nations, uniting people in trade, in words, with birds, and in love. Now published with facing-page Spanish translation.

Chelsea Green Author Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez Julia Alvarez has bridged the Americas many times. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, she is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist, author of world-renowned books in each of the genres, including How the García Girls Lost their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Something to Declare. She lives on a farmstead outside Middlebury, Vermont, with her husband Bill Eichner. Visit Julia's Web site here to find out more about her writing. Julia and Bill own an organic coffee farm called Alta Gracia in her native country of the Dominican Republic. Their specialty coffee is grown high in the mountains on what was once depleted pastureland. Not only do they grow coffee at Alta Gracia, but they also work to bring social, environmental, spiritual, and political change for the families who work on their farm. They use the traditional methods of shad-grown coffee farming in order to protect the environment, they pay their farmers a fair and living wage, and they have a school on their farm where children and adults learn to read and write. For more information about Alta Gracia, visit their website. Belkis Ramírez, who created the woodcuts for A Cafecito Story, is one of the most celebrated artrists in the Dominican Republic.