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Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood
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Review:
‘Compelling ... a classic tale of immigration ... warm and honest’ -- Elle
‘She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant’ -- New York Times Book Review
‘Simply wonderful writing, and there’s a good deal of it in this debut novel by a lively and gifted author’ -- Los Angeles Times
About the Author:
‘She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant’ -- New York Times Book Review
‘Simply wonderful writing, and there’s a good deal of it in this debut novel by a lively and gifted author’ -- Los Angeles Times
Julia Alvarez grew up in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to the United States in 1960. How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents received the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, was listed by Americas magazine as 1993's #1 bestseller in Latin America, and was named by both the ALA and the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 1991. Her second novel, In The Time Of The Butterflies, was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works include !Yo!, Something To Declare and In The Name Of Salome. She is also the author of children's and young adult books and poetry collections. She lives in Vermont and in the Dominican Republic, where she and her husband have a sustainable coffee farm and literacy centre.
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- PublisherDemco Media
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0606252703
- ISBN 13 9780606252706
- BindingLibrary Binding
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