03270cam a2200385 4500 235168583 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616200985 1616200987 B00AJQG874 Amazon 6c6896a2-b171-40c0-b160-9ad28654ff6d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1224566 OverDrive (Product ID) 1224566 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents [Libby]. Algonquin Books, 2010. Literary. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 11MB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2938kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>"Simply wonderful." —<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br /> <br /> Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters recounting their adventures growing up in two cultures. Selected as a Notable Book by both the <i>New York Times</i> and the American Library Association, it won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for books with a multicultural perspective and was chosen by New York librarians as one of twenty-one classics for the twenty-first century. Ms. Alvarez was recently honored with the 2013 National Medal of Arts for her extraordinary storytelling.<br /> In this debut novel, the García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father's role in an attempt to overthrow a tyrannical dictator is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways, but the girls try find new lives: by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. <i>How the García Girls Lost Their Accents</i> sets the sisters free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home—and not at home—in America.<br /> <br /> "A joy to read." —<i>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:42. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=6c6896a2-b171-40c0-b160-9ad28654ff6d https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6C6896A2-B171-40C0-B160-9AD28654FF6D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6C6896A2-B171-40C0-B160-9AD28654FF6D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6C6896A2-B171-40C0-B160-9AD28654FF6D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6C6896A2-B171-40C0-B160-9AD28654FF6D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXOLT