Garcia girls. Alvarez Kh.

“We are finally free, but at the same moment when the gate is open and we can fly out of the cage, the love of Aunt Carmen revives our long -standing longing for our homeland.”

The life of four sisters Garcia collapses when The family is forced to leave the luxurious house in the Dominican Republic due to their father’s involvement in the coup attempt.

In the wonderful, but not always hospitable New York, parents adhere to their old habits while Karl, Sandra, Joland and Sofia are trying to build a new life: straightening hair, dressing in American and gradually forgetting his native Spanish. In the cult novel of Hulia Alvarez, awarded many awards, sisters tell their stories about how for thirty years they have been at home - and not at home - in America.

for everyone who loves strong stories with meaning.

for fans of Latin American literature.