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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Symbols Guavas In the beginning of the story, Yoyo returns to the island and finds herself craving for guavas, a favorite childhood fruit. Made their way into my dissertation on the topic: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Susan Minot's Monkeys, and Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. My blog has been pretty heavy on the cooking lately, so I thought it was time to do a more formal book review. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents illustrates the impact that immigration to the United States from the Dominican Republic around 1960 had on four sisters. Still learning as I go with the blogging, so we'll see how this goes. Many critics have praised Julia Alvarez's sensitive and adept portrait of a family's struggle with assimilation in How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Another section in the story that I have come across about some immigrants fearing that their culture will be lost when settling in America. Since their departure from home, she has not been able to eat them. On October 7th, Henrico County, VA hosts author Julia Alvarez, whose book How the García Girls Lost Their Accents was on — and then removed from — the high school summer reading list. Each one of these classic titles, including the acclaimed How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, contains a free excerpt of A Wedding in Haiti, Alvarez's latest book.