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.
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