The stories begin in 1989 with Yolanda's visit to her native country, the Dominican Republic, and work backward to 1956, before the family immigrated to New York City. The novel's collection of fifteen short stories relates, in reverse chronological order, the experiences of the de la Torre-García family: patriarch Carlos (Papi), mother Laura (Mami), and their four daughters-Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia. Most reviewers praise the novel's exploration of a Dominican-American family's struggle with assimilation and the resulting clash between Hispanic and American cultures. Julia Alvarez's first novel, the semi-autobiographical How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, gained generally favorable reviews and brought her work to the attention of a wide group of critics and readers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez
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