Alvarez reflected on how it took her a while to understand the traumas of a dictatorship through her parents. So, it helped me to understand them and their generation, which has been called ‘la generación perdida’ (the 'lost generation') because so many in that generation lost their lives." The documentary ends with her most recent novel, “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” which Alvarez published this year at age 74. Alvarez said that after arriving in Queens, she felt that her family “had lost everything.” But in spite of feeling like an outsider, poetry helped her find a new home. She produced and directed “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined.”Bosch explained that Alvarez’s writing shifted the lens from male-dominated stories to female-dominated stories.

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Persons: Alvarez, ’, “, ”, ” Alvarez, Langston Hughes, Hughes, I’ll, Nobody’ll, ” “, “ Julia, Adriana Bosch, “ Julia Alvarez, ” Bosch Organizations: U.S ., Harlem Renaissance, ‘ Locations: Queens, Dominican Republic, U.S, America, Americas, Cuban American