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Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia—arrive in New York City in 1960 to find life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family that they left behind. What they have lost—and what they find—is revealed in fifteen interconnected stories that begin with thirty-nine-year-old Yolanda's return to the Island and moves backwards in time to the final days before their exile. Along the way, we witness their headlong plunge into the American mainstream. Although they try to distance themselves from their Island life by ironing their hair, forgetting their Spanish, and meeting boys un-chaperoned, they remain forever caught between the old world and the new. This story of the immigrant experience evokes the tensions and joys of belonging to two different distinct cultures.
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