Julia Alvarez writes fiction, poetry and essays about migration, family, language, dictatorship and the experience of living between Dominican and American cultures. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents follows four sisters whose family leaves the Dominican Republic for the United States, moving backwards through time to show how migration, language and family expectations shape them differently. In the Time of the Butterflies fictionalises the Mirabal sisters, who resisted the Trujillo dictatorship, while ¡Yo! revisits one of the García sisters through the perspectives of people around her. Alvarez has also written books for younger readers and autobiographical essays. Her fiction is accessible and often uses multiple voices or nonlinear structure to show how one family history can be understood in conflicting ways. Her work suits readers of Caribbean literature, immigrant fiction and historical fiction about dictatorship. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents is the broadest introduction to her recurring concerns with language, family and cultural displacement. Read more Less
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