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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

By Julia Alvarez
Hardback  (also available in Paperback)
ISBN: 9780945575573 (0945575572)
Published by Algonquin Books
$18.95(US)
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about How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Julia Alvarez's brilliant first book of fiction sets the Garcia girls free to tell their irrepressibly intimate stories about how they came to be at home -- and not at home -- in America.

"A warm, honest rendering of family life." --Elle Magazine

"She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant." --New York Times Book Review
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about Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez is the author of five books of fiction, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, as well as a book of essays; five collections of poetry; and five books for children. She lives in Vermont, where she is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College.
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