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failed attempt to oust the dominican dictator raphael - they need to escape to the united states. unlike their community in th fdr, in new york the fou dodgers only have one another. and they face bullies wh taught them about thei identities with words they don t even understand. soon they assimilate and grasp american independents, both fo better and for worse they remain in between american and american, vic versa, trying to figure out ho a fractured identity can becom hole what i just described is a jus story of many immigrants who come to the city this particular plot is in fac fiction is the subject o today s velshi banned book club featuring hadley garcia girl lost their accents by julia alvarez the book is written in reverse chronological order, from 1989 backwards to 1950. 68 is 15 interconnected shor stories. in the book, alvarez has created no true linear plot. masterfully mirroring th
deemed unacceptable, inappropriate, and then take off shelves. but to condemn a book that has so much to offer any reader, and one that shows with th american dream truly looks like, depicts what it means to be an immigrant and part of a family and to grow up as a woman, jus because it might fee uncomfortable for some readers that is just wrong no one is protected when books like how the garcia girls lost their accents gets banned. i am joined now by julia alvarez, they were subpoenae the national medal of arts fro then president barack obama, and author of today s velshi banned book club, how th garcia girls lost thei accents. welcome, julia thank you for joining us thank, you ali. so much. and for that introduction, you make me want to read the book! that s the, point we want everybody to that let s start with chapte one. yolanda visits the dominican republic and tries to reclai her roots. she gets a flat tire while gathering guava s in the
garcias girls own instabilit and impermanence throughout th book although each of the stories focuses on one of the four granddaughters, with the garci family as a whole, yolanda leave her daughter i ultimately the central focus and is our protectionist in a matter of pages, th garcia girls go from praying for their swift return to th dominican republic to bein sense there as punishment fo being rebellious teenagers here, alvarez flawlessly interweaves the tensions between the american teenage and her parents with accomplic tensions between a dominican american teenager in her immigrant parents. part coming of age story, part historical fiction how the garcia girls lost thei accents explores themes of identity, assimilation famil and memory it is an immigrant story and i also deals with both women s sexual awakening, and sexual assault. with a gentle nuance and frank real-ism those two themes have led to numerous calls for a removal since the books publication in