Named A Great American Novel by The Atlantic!

From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterfliesand Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accentsis “poignant…powerful… Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory.” (The New York Times Book Review)

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Acclaimed writerJulia Alvarezs beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow upin two cultures. TheGarca sistersCarla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofaand theirfamily must flee their home in the DominicanRepublic after their fathers rolein an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive inNewYork City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in theCaribbean. In the wondrous but not alwayswelcoming U.S.A., their parents tryto hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straighteningtheirhair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. Forthem, it is at once liberating andexcruciating to be caught between the oldworld and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at homeandnot athomein America.

“Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas.”Francisco Cant,The New York Times Book Review

“A clear-eyed look at the insecurity and yearning for a sense of belonging that are a part of the immigrant experience . . . Movingly told.”The Washington Post Book World