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How the Garc铆a Girls Lost Their Accents
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Any amazing portrayal about a family from the Dominican Republic moving to New York. One great part about this book is that it isn't from only one person's perspective. It details the POV of daughters and parents, because they each had a different experience. Some wanted to quickly become as American as possible, some wanted to hold strongly to their Dominican roots. I love the way it is told via vignettes (great for my short attention span!). But my favorite aspect is how the story is told backwards, so that once you reach the end (and sometimes even the next chapter), you better understand one of the preceding stories. Some people might like to know this information up front, to understand a character's life chronologically. But you know what? That is not how life is. When we as citizens/legal residents meet immigrants, we form prejudices and opinions about them...because we know nothing about them, only what we want to believe. Only once we start getting to know them and their past do we understand them and what prompted them to come to our great country. And this is the experience the reader encounters in this book. I know it only received average ratings on this website, but I think it is amazing.
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Started Reading
January 1, 2006
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Finished Reading
September 13, 2007
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Dr Lewis Nordan seduced me and others into Pitt MFA via his readings at Hemingways Cafe. No master could read like Buddy. He was a generous and good-hearted teacher. He could quote Shakespeare and Flannery O'Connor at length. He could teach modern fiction, WRITER TO WRITER. His lecture on Julia Alvarez made her mandatory reading for every listener. His remarks on Faulkner went to the heart of the master. How do you acknowledge a busy master from across campus. I took my cue from Garcia Marquez when he saw Hemingway across the Champs Elysee and he hollered out one word and that word was MAESTRO.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:42 PM, chuck white wrote:
Dr Lewis Nordan seduced me and others into Pitt MFA via his readings at Hemingways Cafe. No master could read like Buddy. He was a generous and good-hearted teacher. He could quote Shakespeare and Flannery O'Connor at length. He could teach modern fiction, WRITER TO WRITER. His lecture on Julia Alvarez made her mandatory reading for every listener. His remarks on Faulkner went to the heart of the master. How do you acknowledge a busy master from across campus. I took my cue from Garcia Marquez when he saw Hemingway across the Champs Elysee and he hollered out one word and that word was MAESTRO.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:42 PM, chuck white wrote:
Dr Lewis Nordan seduced me and others into Pitt MFA via his readings at Hemingways Cafe. No master could read like Buddy. He was a generous and good-hearted teacher. He could quote Shakespeare and Flannery O'Connor at length. He could teach modern fiction, WRITER TO WRITER. His lecture on Julia Alvarez made her mandatory reading for every listener. His remarks on Faulkner went to the heart of the master. How do you acknowledge a busy master from across campus. I took my cue from Garcia Marquez when he saw Hemingway across the Champs Elysee and he hollered out one word and that word was MAESTRO.