How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)

Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left behind. What they have lost - and what they find - is revealed in the fifteen interconnected stories that make up this exquisite novel from one of the premier novelists of our time.

Just as it is a feature of the immigrant experience to always look back, the novel begins with thirty-nine-year-old Yolanda's return to the island and moves magically backward in time to the final days before the exile that is to transform the sisters' lives. Along the way we witness their headlong plunge into the American mainstream. Although the girls try to distance themselves from their island life by ironing their hair, forgetting their Spanish, and meeting boys unchaperoned, they remain forever caught between the old world and the new. With bright humor and rare insight, Julia Alvarez vividly evokes the tensions and joys of belonging to two distinct cultures in a novel that is utterly authentic and full of irrepressible spirit.

General

Imprint:	Algonquin Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Julia Alvarez
Dimensions:	210 x 139 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-56512-975-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-56512-975-X
Barcode:	9781565129757

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