Yo!

Yolanda Garcia's—Yo for short—wildly successful first novel makes "characters" of her family, friends, and lovers. While Yo basks in the spotlight, her loved ones find their naked and very recognizable selves dangling in the same blinding light. The result? The "fictionally victimized" want to tell their side of the story.

And so they do in this novel about the collisions of art and reality, intellect and emotion, American acculturation and Alvarez's own Dominican Republic roots. Yo's three sisters, her Mami and Papi, grandparents, tias, tios, cousins, and husband take center stage to tell their version of the truth about Yo, and, in doing so, tell their own stories as well.