A Cafecito Story is a story of love, coffee, birds and hope. It is a beautifully written eco-fable by best-selling author Julia Alvarez. Based on her and her husband's experiences trying to reclaim a small coffee farm in her native Dominican Republic, A Cafecito Story shows how the return to the traditional methods of shade-grown coffee can rehabilitate and rejuvenate the landscape and human culture, while at the same time preserving vital winter habitat for threatened songbirds.
Not a political or environmental polemic, A Cafecito Story is instead a poetic, modern fable about human beings at their best. The challenge of producing coffee is a remarkable test of our ability to live more sustainably, caring for the land, growers, and consumers in an enlightened and just way. Written with Julia Alvarez's deft touch, this is a story that stimulates while it comforts, waking the mind and warming the soul like the first cup of morning coffee. Indeed, this story is best read with a strong cup of organic, shade-grown, fresh-brewed coffee.
Julia Álvarez nació el 27 de marzo de 1950 en Nueva York. Poeta, novelista y ensayista. Nacida en Estados Unidos, pasó sus primeros años en la República Dominicana, siendo exiliada junto a su familia debido a la participación de su padre en un intento de derrocar al dictador militar Rafael Trujillo. Esta experiencia de exilio y las tensiones culturales que enfrentó al regresar a Estados Unidos, que influenciaron profundamente su obra reflejando sus propias experiencias como dominicana-americana. Aunque inicialmente estaba interesada en ...