How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition).

304 pages

English language

Published Sept. 6, 2005 by Plume.

ISBN:: 978-0-452-28707-5

(1 review)

It\'s a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it\'s the Garcia girls. Four lively latinas plunged from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, they rebel against Mami and Papi\'s old-world discipline and embrace all that America has to offer.

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ahynes1 reviewed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition). by Julia Alvarez

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4 stars

We start off meeting the four Garcia girls and their extended family as we learn about the desire to return to the Dominican Republic. As the book works backwards through their lives, we learn about the complexity of each girl's life, their struggles to fit in, and the reasons they end up leaving in the first place. This is a well woven set of stories that helps me better understand the stories of people from the Dominican Republic that I have met.