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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Publisher Marketing: Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New York City in 1960 to...

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Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left behind. What they have lost - and what they find - is revealed in the fifteen interconnected stories that make up this exquisite novel from one of the premier novelists of our time.

Just as it is a feature of the immigrant experience to always look back, the novel begins with thirty-nine-year-old Yolanda's return to the island and moves magically backward in time to the final days before the exile that is to transform the sisters' lives. Along the way we witness their headlong plunge into the American mainstream. Although the girls try to distance themselves from their island life by ironing their hair, forgetting their Spanish, and meeting boys unchaperoned, they remain forever caught between the old world and the new. With bright humor and rare insight, Julia Alvarez vividly evokes the tensions and joys of belonging to two distinct cultures in a novel that is utterly authentic and full of irrepressible spirit.



Review Citations:

  • Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1796 (EAN 9780452268067, Paperback)
  • Publishers Weekly 05/11/1992 (EAN 9780452268067, Paperback)
  • Audio File 02/01/2009 pg. 64 (EAN 9781419377952, Compact Disc)
  • Library Journal 07/31/2006 (EAN 9781419377952, Compact Disc)
  • Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 87 (EAN 9780452287075, Paperback)
  • ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/1992 pg. 1361 (EAN 9780945575573, Hardcover)
  • Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1796 (EAN 9780945575573, Hardcover)
  • Library Journal 05/01/1991 (EAN 9780945575573, Hardcover)
  • Publishers Weekly 04/05/1991 (EAN 9780945575573, Hardcover)
  • School Library Journal 07/01/1991 (EAN 9780945575573, Hardcover)
  • School Library Journal 09/01/1991 (EAN 9780945575573, Hardcover)
  • Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780945575573, Hardcover)
  • Wilson Senior High Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780945575573, Hardcover)
  • Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781565129757, Paperback)
  • Wilson Senior High Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781565129757, Paperback)


Author: Alvarez, Julia
Publisher: Plume Books
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2005-12-02
BISAC: Fiction|General
Subjects: Sisters|United States|Dominican Americans
Weight: 0.57 lbs
ISBN: 9780452268067
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780452268067

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