{"id":722,"date":"2016-02-09T19:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoinreads\/?p=722"},"modified":"2016-02-09T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:04:21","slug":"emma-laprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2016\/02\/09\/emma-laprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Laprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently reading <em>How the Garc\u00eda Girls Lost Their Accents <\/em>by Julia Alvarez.\u00a0 Another of Alvarez\u2019s books, <em>In the Time of the Butterflies, <\/em>is one of my all-time favorites and inspired me to pick up this title, her first novel.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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\u2019 personal journeys of assimilation in the USA.\u00a0 I always enjoy novels which alternate between different characters\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently reading How the Garc\u00eda Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez.\u00a0 Another of Alvarez\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Alvarez relates the stories of four sisters, alternating between each of their perspectives to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2016\/02\/09\/emma-laprise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emma Laprise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}