The Garcia Girls

The lives of the four Garcia sisters unravel when their family is forced to leave their luxurious home in the Dominican Republic due to their father's involvement in a coup attempt.

In a wonderful yet not always welcoming New York, the parents hold onto their old habits, while Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia try to build a new life: straightening their hair, dressing American-style, and gradually forgetting their native Spanish language. In Julia Alvarez's iconic, award-winning novel, the sisters tell their stories of how for thirty years they have been at home — and not at home — in America.