Before We Were Free (18 page)

Julia Alvarez is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. She has said, “I believe stories have this power— they enter us, they transport us, they change things inside us so invisibly, so minutely, that sometimes we’re not even aware that we come out of a great book as a different person from the person we were when we began reading it.”

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