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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  151 reviews
Sales Rank: 37738
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.2
ISBN: 0452287073
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780452287075
ASIN: 0452287073
Publication Date: August 30, 2005
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Product Description
Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents all in their journey toward adulthood. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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 LOVED THIS BOOK! August 11, 2008
I read this book over 15 years ago and loved it. It just spoke to me, and apparently, to all my friends who borrowed it. It is beautifully written!
good for immigrants April 24, 2008
this is a good book to experience what the immigrants went through regards to culture difference. The quality is not really good because the paper is cut in waves. I don't know if it supposed to be like that or not. But i am not used to turn over such book.
 Too Slow December 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was one that I chose from a list for my Soc 101 class. Had I read the reviews that said that the book was slow and that the characters were disconnected, I would never had read the book. This book is very hard to analyze because it doesn't move anywhere, and is often confusing due to changing time, character, and language. Although I know that the book is obviously going to use Spanish, this was a bad example of how to use it.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Thier Accent October 24, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful Book. The Story of the Four Garcia sisters is told by going back in time from how they came to live in the United States and adapt to this new country to little girls living in Dominican Republic and growing up there, and how they came about to moving to America. Julia Alvarez is an amazing author the book is not only funny, but you can always relate to some part of it. An essay book to read and a lot of fun for people of all age!
Does it get any better October 14, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am 1/3 of the way through this book and I am stalled -- I have read 2 other books since starting this work. It just isn't a rewarding experience for me. There is no driving beat in the book to drive me on.
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