A CAFECITO STORY.

Alvarez, Julia. Bill Eichner (Afterword). Belkis RamĂrez (illustrator).

ISBN 10: 1931498008 / ISBN 13: 9781931498005

Published by White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, September 2001., 2001

About this Item

First printing (as stated upon copyright page). [6], 58 pages. Hardcover; H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, touch of soiling at spine head. Dark maroon cloth spine, white boards. With woodcut illustrations by Belkis RamĂrez and Afterword by Bill Eichner. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN 1931498008.

Seller Inventory # PXZP-10677

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A CAFECITO STORY.
• Publisher: White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, September 2001.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931498008
• ISBN 13: 9781931498005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Belkis Ramirez
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Julia Alvarez has bridged the Americas many times. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, she is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist, author of world-renowned books in each of the genres, including How the Garc­a Girls Lost their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Something to Declare. She lives on a farmstead outside Middlebury, Vermont, with her husband Bill Eichner. Visit Julia's Web site www.alvarezjulia.com to find out more about her writing.
Julia and Bill own an organic coffee farm called Alta Gracia in her native country of the Dominican Republic. Their specialty coffee is grown high in the mountains on what was once depleted pastureland. Not only do they grow coffee at Alta Gracia, but they also work to bring social, environmental, spiritual, and political change for the families who work on their farm. They use the traditional methods of shad-grown coffee farming in order to protect the environment, they pay their farmers a fair and living wage, and they have a school on their farm where children and adults learn to read and write. For more information about Alta Gracia, visit www.cafealtagracia.com.

Belkis Ram­rez, who created the woodcuts for A Cafecito Story, is one of the most celebrated artrists in the Dominican Republic. Visit Belkis' web site.