How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Summary
Julia Álvarez

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Summary

Julia Alvarez's first novel, the semi-autobiographical How the Garda Girls Lost Their Accents, gamed generally favorable reviews and brought her work to the attention of a wide group of critics and readers. Most reviewers praise the novel's exploration of a Dominican-American family's struggle with assimilation and the resulting clash between Hispanic and American cultures. The novel's collection of fifteen short stones relates, in reverse chronological order, the experiences of the de la Torre-Garcia...

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