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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction) |  | Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Seller: bay-city-books
Rating:  161 reviews
Sales Rank: 120023
Media: Paperback
Pages: 290
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0452268060
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780452268067
ASIN: 0452268060
Publication Date: June 1, 1992
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Product Description
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. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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 Excellent Book November 25, 2009
Frederick van Allwijn (Gettysburg, PA)
I had to read this for my Latino Studies class at the university. At first I was a little panicked, as I was in a deadline crunch and the book contains just shy of 300 pages (which is a lot when I also have to read and complete Uncle Tom's Cabin for another class, due the same day) but let me say that the book reads fast. I picked it up and could not put it down.
Some of the other reviews seem to focus on the plot involving the growing up of the Garcia girls. Of course this is an important staple in the book. Alvarez highlights the cultural differences with which these girls must deal, in and outside of the domestic sphere. However, Alvarez also focuses her last section of the book on a childhood youth in a society tainted by the terrors of the Dominican Republic dictator Trujillo and the secret police. These chapters recreate and reinforce this era of Dominican Republic history, with which some of the readers will be familiar. The references are historical and fairly accurate, and should not be lost to the main plot of the girls growing up.
A fast read, insightful, and interesting, this is definitely one of the better books I have read this semester, and well worth the few shekels it costs, if one is interested in Latin America.
 Required Reading October 12, 2009
Mom (Tampa, Florida)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very pleased with the price, shipping time and condition of book. Required Reading for high school sophomore. He could not get into the book and found the writing style not easy to follow.
A family saga and a coming-of-age story October 5, 2009
American Immigration Council's Community Education Center (Washington, DC)
This novel is both a family saga and a coming-of-age story. Each of the four Garcia sisters tells her own story of the family's flight from the Dominican Republic and their subsequent adjustment to life in the United States. The novel is largely set in the 1960's, a time of political upheaval in the country the Garcia family left and of great social change in the country they adopted. The novel treats on many themes common to the immigrant experience - intergenerational conflict, bonds to home country and culture, and cross-cultural misunderstanding -as well as themes that are more particular to the experience of political refugees. Because this novel contains some mature material, it is recommended for high school students.
School Book Requirement for Son October 5, 2009
G. Lilly (Dallas, Texas)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was a school book requirement for my son in middle school so I can't really review the contents. The book came as described and in good condition.
Not a Fan October 2, 2009
P. Markin
I have read half this book and am having trouble reading the rest because the author is all over the place. It is an interesting novel but I just prefer a different style. It was chosen for a book club, I am more a fan of the sci fi and fantasy.
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