How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Algonquin Books, 1991. not stated. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. In this debut novel, the García sisters--Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía--and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father's role in an attempt to overthrow a tyrannical dictator is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways, but the girls try find new lives: by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents sets the sisters free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home--and not at home--in America. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Author Julia Alvarez Edition illustrated Publisher Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991 ISBN 0945575572, 9780945575573 Length 290 pages Subjects Fiction Short Stories (single author)Dominican Americans