How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (CD-Audio)

from dele2451

Four young sisters and their parents flee the corrupt regime ruling their small Caribbean island and relocate in the US. In separate chapters the four sisters, now a psychologist, an artist, a poet and a young mother, recount memories from their early years on the island and their sometimes harsh...

from schrader.jill

I did not enjoy this book as much as Alvarez' In the Time of the Butterflies. This book tells the story of the Garcia family and their four daughters as they flee the Dominican Republic and move to the U.S. The book jumps around in time, and I think that maybe it was this aspect that I liked the ...

from trinityM82

This is not really a novel. it's more a collection of stories, but it's not really a short stories collection because they are all about the same family and it goes back and forth between the family members, though the only person that gets a first person narration is Yolanda, who wishes to be a ...

from lucybrown

Alvarez has undeniable gifts as a writer. I liked a great deal about this book, for instance, the settings are wonderfully evoked. The horror of the Trujillo dictatorship is counterbalanced well with humor and life's small daily details, from a child's perspective. In some ways the book cut into ...

from 05marry

Well not to long ago did I finish reading this book.I got to say it is a joyfull story.This story is based upon how a young lady loses her accent.It talks about there history as young little girls and there good/bad moments.It is a hipanic book but not only does the cover catch your eye but the s...