How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

by Julia Alvarez

1991•Drama•304 pages

Taste attributes: dramateenfresh & originalrealisticemotive & stirringcoming of agefish out of water/culture clashcomplex relationship

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4.3 / 5

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About This Book

It\'s a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it\'s the Garcia girls. Four lively latinas plunged from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, they rebel against Mami and Papi\'s old-world discipline and embrace all that America has to offer.

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Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

DramaTeenComing of ageFish out of water/culture clashComplex relationship

Subjects

SistersDominican Americans

Details

Author
Julia Alvarez
Published
1991
Pages
304
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