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Something to Declare

Essays

Hardback , 300 pages  (also available in Electronic book text)
ISBN: 9781565121935 (1565121937)
Published by Algonquin Books
$20.95(US)

Table Of Contents

Something to Declare to My Readers

Part One: Customs

Grandfather's Blessing

Our Papers

My English

My Second Opera

I Want to Be Miss Am,rica

El Doctor

La Gringuita

Picky Eater

Briefly, A Gardener

Imagining Motherhood

Genetics of Justice

Family Matters

Part Two: Declarations

First Muse

Of Maids and Other Muses

So Much Depends

Dona Aida, with Your Permission

Have Typewriter, Will Travel

A Vermont Writer from the Dominican Republic

Chasing the Butterflies

Goodbye, Ms. Chips

In the Name of the Novel

Ten of My Writing Commandments

Grounds for Fiction

Writing Matters

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