- Sisters, Dominican Americans, Fiction, Garcia family (fictitious characters), fiction
It\'s a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it\'s the Garcia girls. Four lively latinas plunged from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, they rebel against Mami and Papi\'s old-world discipline and embrace all that America has to offer.
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Earnest, character-led, classical in form and effortless.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Julia Alvarez
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- plume, Tandem Library, Longman
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781419377952
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Born in New York City in 1950, Julia Alvarez's parents returned to their native country, Dominican Republic, shortly after her birth. Ten years later, the family was forced to flee to the United States because of her father’s involvement in a plot to overthrow the dictator, Trujillo. Alvarez has written novels (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, ¡Yo!, In the Name of Salomé, Saving the World, Afterlife), collections of poems (Homecoming, The Other Side/ El Otro Lado, The Woman I Kept to Myself), nonfiction (Something to Declare, Once Upon A Quinceañera, and A Wedding in Haiti), and numerous books for young readers (including the Tía Lola Stories series, B
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