In Alvarez's novel, "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," her chapter on The Blood of the Conquistadors, tells the story of how her family had to withstand a great deal of controversy when two SIM police officers showed up at her house looking for her father. At one point in the book, one of the little girls asks why her father had to put locks on the door. ... The man showed the little girl his gun which demonstrated that he could've murdered her father if the door wasn't locked. ... Alvarez noted that this was the only way for one to get their cédula (identificatio...

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