A review by kraelwake
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

4.0

I found How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents to be very charming. Reads like a collection of stories about one family. It starts with the four Garcia de la Torre girls as grown up daughters and goes back in time to when they were children living in the police state of the Dominican Republic in the late 50s and early 60s, illustrating the danger that forced the Garcias to move to the United States. Family, adolescence, childhood, the loss of home and the familiar that comes with immigration, assimilation, personal identity. Warm and funny.