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    <![CDATA[How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents]]>
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    <![CDATA[Julia Alvarez's brilliant first book of fiction sets the Garcia girls free to tell their irrepressibly intimate stories about how they came to be at home -- and not at home -- in America.<br/><br/>&quot;A warm, honest rendering of family life.&quot; --<em>Elle Magazine</em><br/><br/>&quot;She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant.&quot; --<em>New York Times Book Review</em>       ]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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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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