How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents is a 1991 novel written by Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist Julia Alvarez. Told in reverse chronological order and narrated from shifting perspectives, the text possesses distinct qualities of a bildungsroman novel. Spanning more than thirty years in the lives of four sisters, the story begins with their adult lives in the United States and ends with their childhood in the Dominican Republic, from which their family was forced to flee due to the father’s opposition to Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's dictatorship.

The 2557th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993 (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)

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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents: (Plume Essential Edition) Mass Market Paperback 113122 $4.15 $0.01 2005
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction) Paperback 155903 $2.00 $0.01 1992
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Hardcover 998566 $32.32 $0.27 1991
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Audio CD 1463237 $14.04 $9.12 2006
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How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Library Binding 5648019 $21.85 $69.14 2010
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Paperback 1257454 $2.75 $0.01
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction) Hardcover 5986234 $9,996.41 1992
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Paperback 1674410 $9.80 $3.50 2010
GradeSaver(TM) ClassicNotes: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Paperback 2658711 $8.99 $14.34 2010
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Penguin Vitae) Hardcover 1453475 $28.00 2021
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Publisher: Algonquin Books; Reprint edition Paperback 2593866 $12.72 $5.29
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Paperback 11039 $10.48 $2.06 2010
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction) Paperback 3192927 $2.28 $0.36 1992