A review by slichto3
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

4.0

I enjoyed this. I enjoyed the world the book created, I enjoyed being around the people in the story. They were comfortable - relatable but different. But there were some things that I didn't really like. I didn't feel the reverse chronological order of the stories worked very well - it made it much more difficult to follow what was going on, and, I feel, took away from the feeling and the bonding you might have felt with the characters. The sisters were also difficult to distinguish for much of the book, and I feel that the ordering of the stories contributed. So my feelings are mixed, but How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is still very much worth reading - for fun and to learn.