(He would later serve as the antagonizing factor in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and the murderous protagonist in Las Mariposas.) ... It is the separation from her native country, the Dominican Republic, which serves as a backdrop for the holistically autobiographical novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. ... The same edict is echoed in another praiseful review, "The Garcia girls may indeed have lost their accents, but in her first book of fiction, Julia Alvarez has not yet quite found a voice (Rifkind 3)." ... That poet at Lucinda's party the night before argued that...

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