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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

by Julia Alvarez

1991 · literary fiction · adult

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Set in 2 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.

Set in

  • ★
    New York City · United States
    The Bronx, immigrant life in New York
    ★ primary
  • Santo Domingo · Dominican Republic
    Dominican homeland, pre-immigration childhood

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