How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Siblings a riverbank populated by birds

a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women--these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS - From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values

distinct and satisfying

Is it a place

into a triumphant and wholly original idiom

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Siblings a riverbank populated by birdsUprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left behind. What they have lost and what they find is revealed in the fifteen interconnected stories that make up this exquisite novel from one of the premier novelists of our time. Just as it is a