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Aired: Monday, August 06, 2007 11-12PM ET
By Tom Ashbrook.
In the ideal life of nearly every Latina girl in America these days comes the one big night when that girl is a princess.
She's fifteen years old. She's dressed all in pink and surrounded by friends in tuxedos and gowns.
There's a mass, and stretch limo, and a ritual party - the quinceañera - and at the end of that night, the girl - the "quince" - is a woman.
Think "sweet sixteen" with Latin music.
The quinceañera is huge today. Now novelist Julia Alvarez tries to tell us what it means.
This hour On Point: immigration, tradition, Latina womanhood - and the quincea?.
| · | Julia Alvarez, her new book is "Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA." Writer in residence at Middlebury College and author of five novels including "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents." | | · |
Isabella Martinez Wall, she runs the web site bellaquinceneara.com, which has advice, planning information and a store. She is former Miss Dominican Republic. | | · | Barbara Encalava, she will be celebrating her Quinceanera September 8th |
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