How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Name: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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ISBN: 9781565129757

ISBN-10: 156512975X

ISBN-13: 9781565129757

Edition: N/A

Authors: Julia Alvarez

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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 plunge from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, where they embrace all that America has to offer.

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 1/12/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Julia Alvarez is a writer and a poet. She was born in the Dominican Republic. Alvarez wrote novels and poetry including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and In the Time of the Butterflies. Her poetry is collected in the book The Other Side of El Otro Lado. Alverez won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991 for How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent and was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for In the Time of the Butterflies.