num_pages: 308
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 Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
titlecomplete: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
genres: Family, Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
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: Algonquin Books