How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez
"Four sisters, two islands, and the accents that carried everything home."
Told in reverse, from adulthood back to childhood, the García sisters' story moves from psychiatrists' couches in New York to the Dominican compound they fled when their father crossed Trujillo's regime. Alvarez's landmark novel mapped the hyphenated life before there was a shelf for it.
Worth knowing
Alvarez received the National Medal of Arts; named a Great American Novel by The Atlantic.
