De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento. (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent)

By staff -- Críticas, 12/15/2007

[A new translation of ] Alvarez’s first novel, [which] tells the story (in reverse chronological order) of four sisters and their family, as they become Americanized after fleeing the Dominican Republic in the 1960s. A family of privilege in the police state they leave, the Garcías experience understandable readjustment problems in the United States, particularly their old world patriarch father. The sisters fare better but grow up conscious, like all immigrants, of living in two worlds. Alvarez is a gifted, evocative storyteller of promise. [LJ 5/01/1991]