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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

by Julia Alvarez

Book Details

Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: 2005
Language: en
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781417753994
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💥ViolenceLow
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❤️Love & RomanceNotable
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🧠Mental HealthModerate
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💬!*$#LanguageLow
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🍷🚬Substance UseLow
2
😨Fear / HorrorLow

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🧙Fantasy / SupernaturalNot present
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🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ RepresentationNot present
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🚀Sci-Fi / FuturisticNot present
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Disability & NeurodiversityNot present

Description

Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left behind. What they have lost - and what they find - is revealed in the fifteen interconnected stories that make up this exquisite novel from one of the premier novelists of our time.

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