03943cam a2200853 4500 590477818 TxGeo 20220725120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616200985 1616200987 B00AJQG874 Amazon 6c6896a2-b171-40c0-b160-9ad28654ff6d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1224566 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents [Libby]. Algonquin Books, 2010. 1960s. sisterhood. Fiction. Coming of age. Short Stories. Modern Classic. magical realism. debut. Siblings. feminism. Dominican Republic. multicultural. historial. new york city. latino. vignettes . Latin American. Assimilation. People of Color. Banned Books. family ties. immigrant experience. women of color. political unrest. latina literature. alternating povs. novel in stories. rafael trujillo. latinx. 30th anniversary. immigrant voices. books about sisters. books set in nyc. dominican authors. top 10 latina authors. carribean culture. carribean diaspora. carribean writer. greensboro review. trujillo revolution. latinas in ya. elizabeth acevedo. for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo. penguin vitae. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2958kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>"Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory."&#160;<i>—The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> Acclaimed writer&#160;Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up&#160;in two cultures. The&#160;García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their&#160;family must flee their home in the Dominican&#160;Republic after their father’s role&#160;in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in&#160;New&#160;York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the&#160;Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always&#160;welcoming U.S.A., their parents try&#160;to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening&#160;their&#160;hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For&#160;them, it is at once liberating and&#160;excruciating to be caught between the old&#160;world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home—and&#160;not at&#160;home—in America.<br /> <b>Julia Alvarez’s new novel, <i>Afterlife</i>, is available now.</b>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6C6896A2-B171-40C0-B160-9AD28654FF6D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6C6896A2-B171-40C0-B160-9AD28654FF6D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6C6896A2-B171-40C0-B160-9AD28654FF6D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5