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    <body><![CDATA[I was so intrigued by the title that I kept it on my to-read list for years, but when I finally settled down to read it, I didn't fall immediately in love. I felt the &quot;voices&quot; of the various sisters were too similar, and all of them seemed quite shallow. <br/><br/>However, it is not with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11809718">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Any amazing portrayal about a family from the Dominican Republic moving to New York. One great part about this book is that it isn't from only one person's perspective. It details the POV of daughters and parents, because they each had a different experience. Some wanted to quickly become as America...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6145134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the title suggests, <u>How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents</u>, is about four Dominican girls who moves to America and adjusting to the American culture, in terms of language, academics, and living standards. Back in the Dominican Republic, the four girls, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia all lives ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47812196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Started in 2006, I finally finished my first book of 2007!  What a fascinating book this was.  Told in the first person by each of 4 daughters, this book tracks their transition from growing up privleged in the Dominican Republic to New York.  A very interesting method of telling the story -- it sta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39141201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It seemed weird to me that although I enjoyed this book, I never got around to writing a review for it.  It is almost three months since I created this entry, and I see it whenever I browse the page - but never have anything to say about it.<br/><br/>Perhaps that is the most accurate message I can s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81344561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents as part of an assignment for my English class. I procrastinated in starting to read it, but once I began I couldn’t put it down. It is the most fun, dynamic and enjoyable book I’ve read in a very long time. Although I was required to read it, I didn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79711748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez is about the four Garcia sisters come to the United States as young girls with their immigrant parents because their father, Carlos, got in trouble with the secret police for agitating the military dictatorship. The sisters are caught up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70378592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting book about how an upper class Dominican family with four daughters escapes the Dominican Rebublic and a tyranical dictator only to loose their cultural heritage in America. With a regressive timeline, this book starts in present day with the four daughters who are fully Ameri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59951222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Leider war dieses Buch nicht mein Fall, obwohl mich die Beschreibung und auch der Anfang durchaus angesprochen hat.<br/>Aber spätestens ab der 3. Geschichte hat mich das Leben der Schwestern nicht mehr wirklich interessiert. Wahrscheinlich liegt das hauptsächlich am Schreibstil, oder möglicherwe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81277435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Told in reverse chronological order, the story of sisters, <em>How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents</em>, is a collection of memoirs told by Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia. Their father, a highly respected doctor, has to flee the Dominican Republic after he is  suspected in playing a part in a plot aga...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49614769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Immigration is not about loss, but longing. Alvarez captures the longing of immigration with depth and limited sentiment in her novel. As I read her book, I found myself moving through a range of emotions as each chapter revealed the unfortunate crisis of identity that the family faced in their forc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62760035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were two things that really stood out to me as 'great' in this book:<br/><br/>1- I was surprised when I realized that the book was not written chronologically, but in reverse.  I don't know that I've ever read a book written like that and while it seems like it could be pretty annoying, I th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44889157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book quite a bit more than I thought I would.  The prose is very poetic.  The chapters are told from the point of view of the different sister characters, and they are not in chronological order, which is both cool and confusing.  The main characters are of the owning class, so reading ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3617749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stopped reading this in the winter of 2004, my bookmark on page 90 told me.  Not worth waiting for, unfortunately.  1.5 stars, rounding up because I don't want to have <em>guilt</em> about this one.<br/><br/>Partially, I was let down by the reason I picked up the book again: I wanted to read the story of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69640616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading this book, structured as a set of stories that go further and further into the past of a family of four girls who immigrated from the Dominican Republic to the US with their parents. The themes include immigrant experience, sibling rivalry, formation of female identity, the role of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37119008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit that I was a bit disappointed in this one.  Have been wanting to read it for years, but did not love it.  It was okay, but I found that I could not really relate to the characters, and couldn't get into the &quot;backwards-in-time&quot; format.]]></body>
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