num_pages: 290
description: Julia Alvarez's brilliant first book of fiction sets the Garcia girls free to tell their irrepressibly intimate stories about how they came to be at home -- and not at home -- in America."A warm, honest rendering of family life." --Elle Magazine"She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant." --New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
titlecomplete: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
genres: Classics, Contemporary, Young Adult, Novels, Family, Historical Fiction, Literature, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 29050
places: New York City, New York, Dominican Republic
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Long Island Reads, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles
publisher: Plum/Penguin