a novel Alvarez, Julia 1950- creator text bibliography Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. ncu Chapel Hill, NC Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007 1st pbk. ed. monographic eng

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376 p. ; 21 cm. From the Publisher: While Alma Huebert is researching a new novel, she finds her real story-and her salvation-in a little-known but staggering historical footnote: the Royal Expedition of the Vaccine. In 1803, Don Francisco Balmis embarked on a two-year sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. Accompanying him were twenty-two orphan boys, acting as live carriers, and their guardian, Isabel Sendales y Gomez. As Alma digs deeper into Isabel's life, she finds her own power to commit an act as life-changing as Isabel's. In Saving the World, Julia Alvarez, author of perennial bestsellers, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, takes us into the worlds of "two women living two centuries apart [who] each face 'a crisis of the soul' when their fates are tied to idealistic men"-(Publishers Weekly). Julia Alvarez. "A Shannon Ravenel book." Reader's discussion guide included. Includes bibliographical references. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 6.6 22. Dominican Americans in literature Literatura dominicana Married women Fiction Middle-aged women Fiction AIDS (Disease) Patients Fiction AIDS (Disease) Patients Family relationships Fiction Expedición Maritima de la Vacuna (1803-1810) Fiction Balmis, Francisco Xavier de Fiction Vaccination Fiction Smallpox Fiction 118 PQ 7409 A473s 2007 9781565125582 : 1565125584 : 2005053064 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2005053064-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2005053064-d.html ILE 070910 20230410102138.0 74455