Julia Alvarez - How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

How The Garcia Girls Lost Their

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"Tender, charming... the sharp humor and snappy perceptions of an outsider... the writing is charged with a poetic intensity that is truly original."

The Miami Herald

"Alvarez treats the subjects of immigration, exile, Hispanic culture and the American Dream with a sensitive and often irreverent touch."

Washington Post

"Like Amy Tan, Julia Alvarez uses her rich storytellingskills to convey a disturbing message about the ever-widening gap between native and ethnic cultures inour country."

Albany Metroland

"A TUMULTUOUS FAMILY GET-TOGETHER, full of warmth, laughter and bickering."

-St.

Petersburg Times

JULIA ALVAREZ was raised in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to the United States in 1960. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and writing, she taught poetry for many years and published her first collection of poems,

Homecoming,

in 1984. Alvarez has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Ingram Merrill Foundation.

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents was the winner of the 1991 PEN Oakland/josephine Miles Book Award for works which present a multicultural viewpoint. Alvarez is currently professor of English at Middlebury College.

"A LYRICAL RENDITION OF A FAMILIAR

STORY- the American immigrant's search for identity... told in vivid, poetic language."

Philadelphia Inquirer

"DEFT AND MAGICAL... brings

to attention manyof the issues-serious and light-that immigrantfamilies face, portraying them with sensitivity and anenjoyable, mischievous sense."

Kirkus Reviews

"ALVAREZ MAKES MAGIC AND ART OF

THE HUMAN ODYSSEY... A PLEASURE

TO READ."

The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Star

"ROLLICKING, HIGHLY ORIGINAL ...

Alvarez is a gifted, evocative storyteller of promise."