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Alvarez’s novel describes the life of four girls: Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia who happened to immigrate to the U.S. because of their father’s exile, as Carlos García had taken part in a conspiracy to overthrow Trujillo’s dictatorship, one of the most corrupt as well as oppressing periods in the Dominican Republic. For that matter, the Garcia girls started to face, some from their late childhood and others from their early teenage on, a new existence in the United States. Throughout the novel they have to overcome circumstances an immigrant might go through in this new location: the acquisition of the local language English; the conflictive contact with the American society and Americans; the maintenance of their Hispanic tradition despite the tendency to assimilate the American culture and the consequent process of becoming bilingual; and the past which seems to haunt the family.

The experience of the Garcia family is undoubtedly paradigmatic of the process other......

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