How the Garcia Lost Their Accents



How the Garcia Lost Their Accents

Introduction

Julia Alvarez's narrative, the semi-autobiographical How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, acquired encouraging appraisals and carried her effort to the consideration of a wide faction of columnists and booklovers. Most critics admire the novel's investigation of a Dominican-American family's effort with adaptation and the resultant disagreement between Hispanic and American traditions (Alvarez, 1992).

Discussion

Part 1

Alvarez's How the Garda Girls Lost Their Accents is a collected works of accounts that narrates experiences in the life of four Dominican-American sisters and their parents. In inscribing the narrative, Alvarez draws her own ...