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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Julia Alvarez

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1991
Pages
Pages 290

Four sisters flee the Dominican Republic for New York as children, and their story is told backward, from tangled adult lives in America to the frightened night they left, tracing what assimilation costs them.

They will be haunted by what they do and don't remember. But they have spirit in them. They will invent what they need to survive.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez

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