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How the García girls lost their accents

Captures the vivid lives of the García sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alvarez, Julia
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2006.
Edition:	Unabridged.
Subjects:	Sisters > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Dominican Americans > Fiction. Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. Audiobooks.
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Summary:	Captures the vivid lives of the García sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America.
Item Description:	Compact disc.
Physical Description:	8 sound discs (9.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:	1419377957 : 9781419377952 1419397427 9781419397424
Author Notes:	Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950 and was raised in the Dominican Republic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she traveled across the country with poetry-in-the-schools programs and then taught at the high school level and the college level. In 1991, she earned tenure at Middlebury College and published her first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991. Her other works include In the Time of the Butterflies, The Other Side of El Otro Lado, and Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA. (Bowker Author Biography)