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    Editor's Review of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

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    In five pages this paper is formatted in the form of a letter from an editor to author Julia Alvarez regarding her cultural novel. One source is listed in the bibliography.

    Name of Research Paper File: TS14_TEalverz.rtf

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    How the  Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; The Review of an Editor United Kingdom, October 2001. To Use This Report Correctly, Please Visit  /aftersale.html Dear Julia, It is with great pleasure that I write to you as an editor. The book that you  have sent me has a great deal of potential. The theme of growing up and the transitions of childhood into adulthood is captured within the name of the book, yet  there are still some suggestions and companies. In telling the story of the family turmoil in retrospect there is the ability to  use adult understanding in situation where the family members were not available to use the same expressions and understand the consequences and meaning in the same depth. The charters  are rich, but sometimes there is little explanation as to their actions and reactions. The way in which the narrator, in the form of Yolanda. There is an understanding of  the problems as well as a wondering at why these events have hit the family, with so many different husbands, jobs and homes.  All aspects of an unsettled life and a gradual loss of self in the confusion of modern society to which we are all victims. My favourite character must  be that of Mom, especially as you have portrayed her in the chapter "Mami, Papi and Yoyo". This is one of the lighter chapters, and can be seen as 

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