Tuesday, November 3, 2015

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez



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Thoughts on How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents:

*poetic

*lyrical sentences  - love them... the story is more than plot - it is the culmination of all the beautiful words that CREATE a miraculous tale

*episodic short stories reverse in time order

*incidents with unmitigated intimacy

*"There's more to the story.  There always is to a true story."

*gives away the secrets that design the relationships of women - daughter, wife, sister, mother, grandmother, auntie, cousin, lover

*"It was a regular revolution: constant skirmishes.  Until the time we took open aim and won, and our summers - if not our lives - became our own."

*holds it all - all of their lives - in images

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