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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
own younger selves i want to read a small part of a new york times review from back in 2018 quote, i must have rea hundreds of books but i neve encountered any character like me dominican, nerdy, an immigrant whose first language was spanish. by the time i found alvarez debut novel, how the garci girls lost their accents, i ve already resigned myself to using books as windows rathe than mirrors and quote. i think that is really powerful their keys after publishin this book in 1991, your writin still is to some people th first representation that they will find of themselves. mirror, not window what a beautiful i have to steal that a window, a mirror not a window that is so heartening. i wish it weren t so but you are doing the job of keeping those books up there so there will be those books available that are pulled of the shelves.
ali, as far as ukrainians ar concerned, this information is probably not all that damaging it s information they woul prefer wasn t out there, but it s not going to really affec operations on the ground you mentioned the burn rate fo the himars, some casualt numbers, which appear to hav been altered and some other details about the constitution of some of th fighting battalions in units here in ukraine. but really, those are things that aren t gonna have much of an effect. again, as you mentioned, thi is six weeks old a lot of this stuff has alread changed in the interim ukrainians are confident tha it sounds like this is actuall russian misinformation they have seen, they don t see all that rattled by it the real impact this is gonn have is going to be on the united states, and its intelligence gathering operations the trust that it is trying to build with the other fiv countries, the nations that ar a part of intelligence sharing communities throughout the world, the english speakin
getting started. and they at first resisted wan to go back to, as they say open occasionally little bir has stay there so long it does not know what to do. so he does not want to com out. but once they feel this freedo to explore, that complexit that we have been talking about, they just lie and this is situation of often with firs interaction and second generation immigrant families, that the parents are still par of the old world there is a way in which they don t assimilate, and the ne generations become part of the new culture and that causes al kinds of divisions for the family and within th garcia girls, because they fee that poll. so i wanted to capture and not a straightforward, they come and it is the american dream and everything goes fine because that is not true right and kids reading these, books immigrant kids, kids tha have been here all their lives