How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Free Audiobook Download by Julia Alvarez

"The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" is a novel by Cuban-American writer Julia Alvarez. The book follows four sisters, one of which leaves their small town to seek fame and fortune in New York City. Within the first few pages, they all start losing their accents and starts speaking perfect English. In the novel, the narrator is also a struggling actress who tries to find her place in Hollywood.

Julia Alvarez has written a novel that is not only difficult to put down, but rich with social commentary. The Garcia Girls is narrated in the first person by four different protagonists, which gives the reader an intimate look into their thoughts and feelings. The four protagonists are all sharing a room in an old house with plenty of nostalgia for them, though it's also full of ghosts and memories from their pasts.

The four Garcia girls, who were born in New York City, spoke with a Spanish accent all their lives. But one day they wake up in the morning and their accents are gone! What happened? If you listen to Julia Alvarez's audiobook, then you'll find out that the girls' accents went missing because of a secret family recipe for overnight oatmeal flapjacks.

The book is about a family looking for a new life in the US, and their journey across the Mexican border. The story takes place around the year 2000, and speaks about the struggles of immigrants with an accent that sounds too foreign to them living in America. The Garcia Girls are having trouble adapting to life in America and start to lose their accents. In order to fit in with society, they are forced to adapt and speak English.

When the Garcia girls were born, they had a right to be proud of their native Spanish tongue. But one day, all six Garcia girls began to lose their accents in English. Their mother, always a bit mystified by the change and how quickly it had happened, set out with her daughters and followed them back in time through the story of their great-grandfathers. They found that their accents hadn't always been so smooth and sophisticated. This audiobook is narrated by five women of different ages, who share the voices of the Garcia sisters as they age from toddler to teenager. Julia Alvarez depicts these ladies' inner monologues on what it's like to take a journey backwards in time and have your accent change over time until you can

The first of the Garcia Girls, Isabel, was born in Mexico. The second, Martha, is Mexican-American and grew up in Texas. The third, Carmen, is Puerto Rican and grew up on the island. All of them struggle with their accents from different countries - but none so much as when they meet Agnese Mary Smith who is a hearing aid company rep who speaks with a thick Italian accent.