Reviews for A Cafecito Story/El cuento del cafecito

The average rating for A Cafecito Story/El cuento del cafecito based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-25 00:00:00 Andrew Hanna V I love coffee and I love Julia Alvarez so I picked up her short A Cafecito Story expecting a history of how she and her husband acquired Altagracia coffee farms in the Dominican Republic. Alvarez' husband does explain this in the epilogue and I found it fascinating. The Cafecito Story itself is only about twenty short pages, forty if you count the English and Spanish translations. She parables how she learned about the abuses of coffee farmers in her home country and came to purchase the farm, which she now oversees. Alvarez left me wanting more as I have such high expectations for her work so it is probably high time I reread one of my favorites of hers. 3.5 stars

Review # 2 was written on 2007-09-07 00:00:00 Anthony Tran Besides the beautiful woodcuts, there is really nothing to this very, very short story about shade-grown coffee in the Dominican Republic. It's much too short to be a book; it would be better suited as an informative pamphlet on sustainable and responsible coffee farming and buying.