In the Time of the Butterflies | Related Titles
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, published in 1991, is Alvarez's first novel. Largely autobiographical, the work features a collection of stories about Dominican sisters who grow up in el norte, America, having escaped from Trujillo's tyranny. Sybil Steinberg, reviewing the book in Publishers Weekly, noted that Alvarez "has an ear for the dialogue of non-natives, and the strong flavors of Dominican syntax and cultural values." Told from multiple points of view, the stories record the rebellion of young, first-generation American women against their parents....
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