TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alvarez,Julia
AU  - Nizār,Nīrmīn
TI  - Banāt Jārsiyā bi-al-laknat al-amrīkīyah: riwāyah
SN  - 9789778031041
AV  - PS3551.L845 A48 2019
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - al-Qāhirah
PB  - al-Kutub Khān lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dominican Americans
KW  - Teenage immigrants
KW  - fast
N1  - Translation of: How the Garcia girls lost their accents; P.B; P.B
N2  - The García sisters and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of their father's role in an attempt to overthrow the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming United States, their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try to find new lives
ER  -