I am currently reading How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez. Another of Alvarez’s books, In the Time of the Butterflies, is one of my all-time favorites and inspired me to pick up this title, her first novel. Alvarez relates the stories of four sisters, alternating between each of their perspectives to describe their transitions between living in the Dominican Republic and the United States. This novel tackles some of the issues of living in the Dominican Republic during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the 1950s, while also focusing on each of the girls’ personal journeys of assimilation in the USA. I always enjoy novels which alternate between different characters’ perspectives because I feel like it adds a level of richness to a story by reminding the reader that everyone has a different way of experiencing things.