A collectible hardcover thirtieth-anniversary edition of Julia
Alvarez's modern Latinx classic that gives voice to four sisters as they
grow up in two cultures, featuring a new foreword by New York Times
bestselling, National Book Award-winning novelist Elizabeth
Acevedo
A Penguin Vitae Edition
The García sisters--Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía--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: by straightening their hair
and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For
them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the
old world and the new. In Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel, How the
García Girls Lost Their Accents, the sisters tell their stories about
being at home--and not at home--in America.
Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as Penguin of one's life--is a deluxe
hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse
landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of
classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully
designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and
welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal
inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
