How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Julia Alvarez
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman, Family literature
- Subjects: 1960’s, Family or family life, New York, United States or Americans, Parents and children, New York City, Ethnic relations, Immigration or emigration, Sisters, Dominican Republican or Dominicans
- Locales: United States, Dominican Republic
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Alvarez's first novel, has an episodic plot covering a time span of thirty-three years, from 1956 to 1989, revolving around the García family—the parents and their four daughters, Carla, Sandi, Yolanda, and Sofia. Set against a backdrop of the political upheavals in the Dominican Republic and in the turbulent years of the 1960's in the United States, the narrative focuses on the struggles of the García family to make sense of the practices and expectations in the New World and reconcile them with the traditions they brought with...
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