Book description
From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." (The New York Times Book Review)
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Why read it?
1 author picked How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
New York City includes all five boroughs. When it was first published in the early 1990s, this creative book that weaves the stories of four Dominican sisters through the decades backwards from the 1980s to the 1960s was a real gamechanger.
Itâs about a family thatâs been taken down a few notchesâhaving once lived as upper-class citizens with house servants in the Dominican Republicâas they adjust to New York City culture, and specifically, life in the 1960s and 1970s Bronx, and unpack the truth about their fatherâs reasons for relocating the family in the first place.
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