"How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Avarez and "Something to Declare" by Julia Avarez.

Julia Alvarez develops the character of Yolanda Garcia in some different and similar ways in her two books How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and its sequel Yo . The reasons for the differences in the two characterizations of Yolanda is that there is almost no continuity concerning her character in the two books--meaning that all the specific details of Yolanda's life given to the reader in the first book are different (not continued nor …

…Cited Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Plume, 1991. - - - . Yo . New York: Plume, 1997. Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare: Essays. New York: Plume, 1998. Barak, Julie. 'Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre': A Second Coming into Language in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, MELUS Spring (1998), http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2278/1_23/53501904/print.jhtml. The Author Project. Julia Alvarez. http://ahs.aps.edu/authorproject/juliaalvarez.html.