1/22/08

JULIA ALVAREZ from ONCE UPON A QUINCEANERA

Julia Alvarez (heritage: Dominican Republic)
ONCE UPON A QUINCEANERA
C 2007 by the author
published by Viking (the Penguin Group)

...page 197 Excerpt:

"I thrived at Syracuse University, falling in love, but not loosing my focus, and therefore losing my lovers. Over time I found that if I stayed true to what I loved to do most men fell away on their very own. Given their druthers men - at least of my generation - seemed to want a woman to be preoccupied with them, not with her poems and novels.