This is a great book about afamily, including four sisters, who left their home, in the Dominican Republic, to New York City in 1960. The chapters are tells about the different family members and how they are adjusting and trying hard to escape the Dominican characteristics to be normal Americans. Great story!

A latin chic-lit story about sisters from the Dominican Republic adjusting to America without losing their latin culture. The story is humorous and entertaining :)

Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters arrive in new York in 1960 to find a life far different than the genteel existence of maids, maincures and extended family they have left behind

It was an enjoyable tale, but I found the author's style a bit affected. Telling the story backwards was an interesting twist, but it made it hard to keep track of who the characters were and by the time I was finished, I needed to read the book again in order to reorient myself to the story. But it was not so interesting that I wanted to take the trouble to read it again.

I was disappointed in "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents". I feel as if it had a lot of potential, but then just didn't live up to it. The book is more of a collection of short stories than a novel. If it were presented that way (instead of as a novel), it would have been a bit better.

The title has virtually nothing to do with the book. There is no connection between the stories. Because of the lack of connection between all the short stories, I never felt drawn in. The only reason that I even finished "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" was because I was hoping that by the end there would be some tie that binds. But nope.

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Interesting, but I couldn't connect with the characters very well.

very entertaining! a good read.

Relatively quick read, very engaging.

its a really good book! I enjoyed reading it!

If you are interested in Hispanic culture, this is a good place to start. It's a rich, colorful story that will pull you in from the first page.

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It was..OK.

Yet another great Allende book! Worth reading.

I probably would have enjoyed this more, if I had some Spanish background (of the language)....read it for a bookclub.

Haven't read. Apparently "powerful, poignant...Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant where the past is not yet a memory and the future remains an anxious dream."

Cover of book is different from is pictured.

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