De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento

(How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent) Alvarez, Julia. tr. by Mercedes Guhl. U.S.: Vintage Español: Random House. 2007. 320p. ISBN 978-1-4000-9694-7. pap. $14. FICTION [A new translation of ] Alvarez’s first novel, [which] tells the story of four sisters and their family, as they become Americanized after fleeing the Dominican Republic in the 1960s. A family of privilege, the Garcías experience understandable readjustment problems in the United States, particularly their old world patriarch father. The sisters fare better but grow up conscious, like all immigrants, of living in two worlds