How the Garcia Girls Lost Their AccentsAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 14 December 2021
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A collectible hardcover thirtieth-anniversary edition of Julia Alvarezs modern Latinx classic that gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures, featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling, National Book Award–winning novelist Elizabeth Acevedo
A Penguin Vitae Edition
The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of their fathers role in an attempt to overthrow the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming United States, their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try to find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. In Julia Alvarezs beloved first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, the sisters tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America.
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