Tuesday, August 7, 2007

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents


Quickie recap: The Garcia girls immigrate to the U.S. with their parents, and the family struggles to adapt to a new country without losing their culture or their values. This is both easier and more difficult than it seems.
Quickie review: Interesting, written in a backwards outside-the-box kind of way, a nice book to get lost in for a while.
Quickie recommendation: Sweetly satisfying.
p.s. Thank you to Molly and Genevieve for turning me on to the Garcia Girls.

3 comments:

Daniel A. Olivas said...

Jay, you might like my recent interview with Julia Alvarez:

http://labloga.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-with-julia-alvarez.html

Genevieve said...

hooray! I love love love Julia Alvarez. there are other books about the Garcia girls but I really recommend In the Time of the Butterflies

Jay said...

Cool, thanks, I will look for it.