immigrant narrative

All but One Speak up in Julia Alvarez’s ¡Yo!

All but One Speak up in Julia Alvarez’s ¡Yo!

In a new edition to the sequel to How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, ¡Yo!, Julia Alvarez structures the story of a writer and her voice by allowing everybody but the writer herself to have a voice.

‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents’ Holds Particular Relevance in These Times

‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents’ Holds Particular Relevance in These Times

Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is more relevant in America in 2019 than Alvarez might have imagined her debut novel would be in 1991.