Bilingual Review, January 1st, 2001
The very title of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents reveals the central role that language plays in a novel that chronicles the difficult paths that four young sisters from the Dominican Republic take while growing up in the United States. The novel, made up of three parts of five chapters each, traces the Garcia girls' story backwards in time, beginning with American adulthood in 1989 and ending with their Dominican childhood in 1956. As Joan M. Hoffman has observed, despite this unique chronological structure, language is one of the unifying symbols for the four sisters...
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