HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS This book is a story about 4 sisters who tell their stories about living on an island in the Dominican Republic , and then moving to New York . What is different about this book is the fact that you have different narrators telling you the story , jumping back and forth from past to present . This is effective because it gives you different view point’s from each of the sisters . …showed first 75 words of 1996 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1996 total…know it really is . Alvarez’s mission is to show everyone what she has come to understand about ethnic identity , in a way everyone can see . BIBLIOGRAPHY 1)HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENT BY JULIA GARCIA PLUME BOOKS , (COPYWRITE 1991) NY,NY 2)INTERVIEW W. CHRIS TOKIKO BY BRYAN YEE 11/12/99 SF,CA 3)VOICESFROM THE GAPS 11/12/99 WWW.HTTP://VOICES.CLA.EDU/AUTHORS/JULIAALVAREZ.HTML 4)JULIA ALVAREZ (MAJOR THEMES /BIOGRAPHY) HTTP://WWW.EMORY.EDU/ENGLISH/BAHRI/ALVAREZ.HTML