How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
By Julia Alvarez
Read by Annie Henk, Annie Kozuch, Melanie Martinez, Blanca Camacho, and Noemi de la Puente
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Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “simply wonderful,” How the García Girls Lost Their Accents captures the vivid lives of the García sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America. In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and toward the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are more traditional, and they have far more difficulty adjusting to their new country. Making matters worse, the girls—frequently embarrassed by their parents—find ways to rebel against them. A touching coming-of-age tale, this enthralling book perfectly illuminates the intergenerational struggles and multicultural clashes so common to the American immigrant family.
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Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “simply wonderful,” How the García Girls Lost Their Accents captures the vivid lives of the García sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America.
In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and toward the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are more traditional, and they have far more difficulty adjusting to their new country. Making matters worse, the girls—frequently embarrassed by their parents—find ways to rebel against them.
A touching coming-of-age tale, this enthralling book perfectly illuminates the intergenerational struggles and multicultural clashes so common to the American immigrant family.
Author
Author Bio: Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez has written several novels for adults and for young readers, including Before We Were Free, winner of the ALA’s Pura Belpré Award. Her acclaimed first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and the American Library Association Her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. She grew up in the Dominican Republic before immigrating to the United States at the age of ten. She is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, Vermont.
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| Available Formats : | CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 9.45 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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