... as the SIM, the disregarded civil liberties for Haitian immigrants, the complications encountered with trying to leave the country, and even the importance of privacy and dangers of being suspicioned for rebelling against the regime of Trujillo's rule. Without this vital information shared by Alvarez, the world may have never known the reality Dominicans faced living under a dictatorship. In Alvarez's novel, "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," her chapter on The Blood of the Conquistadors, tells the ... story of how her family had to withstand a great deal of controversy when two...

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