how the garcia girls last their accents by julia alvarez. a family that lives right here in new york city. two parents, four daughters. the father is a doctor in the first they lived in the dominican republic surrounded by aunts, uncles, and cousins in a community with, tall safe walls. variable to trace their lynyrd lineage back to the country stores of spain, and then after their father joins a failed attempt to oust the dominican dictator raphael travilah, they must escape to the united states. unlike their community in the dominican republic, in new york, the four daughters only had each other. they faced police who taught them about their identity with roads they don't even understand. soon though, they assimilate, the grasp american independents both for better and for worst, and they remain between dominican and american and trying to figure out how a fractured identity can become hole. what i just described is many immigrants who came to the city, and this particular plot is fiction, and this object about how they lost their axons by