Books like How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.
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Lucy
Lucy, nineteen, leaves Antigua to work as an au pair for a wealthy white family in New York, and is in no mood to be grateful.
Searching for Sylvie Lee
Sylvie Lee flies from New York to the Netherlands to see her dying grandmother, who raised her, and vanishes. Her younger sister Amy, who has never travelled, goes after her.
Patsy
Patsy, a young woman in Kingston, leaves her five-year-old daughter, Tru, with the girl's father and goes to New York on a tourist visa, hoping to find Cicely, the friend she has loved since childhood.
Blue Sisters
A year after their sister Nicky's death, the three remaining Blue sisters, a lawyer in London, a boxer in Los Angeles and a model in Paris, come back to New York to stop their parents selling the family apartment.
In the Time of the Butterflies
The four Mirabal sisters grow up in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, and three of them become the Butterflies, leaders of the underground resistance.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.
Black Cake
Byron and Benny Bennett, estranged siblings, come home to California after their mother's death to find she has left them a long voice recording, the story of her life in the Caribbean, and a black cake in the freezer.
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Two Cuban brothers, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, come to New York in 1949 to play mambo, and their brush with fame on I Love Lucy echoes through Cesar's memories decades later.
Clap When You Land
When their father dies in a plane crash on his way to the Dominican Republic, Camino Rios in Santo Domingo and Yahaira Rios in New York, half-sisters who never knew the other existed, each learn the secret he kept.
Dreaming in Cuban
Three generations of women of the del Pino family, a grandmother loyal to Castro in Cuba and her daughters and granddaughter in Brooklyn and Havana, are divided by politics and the sea.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
An Irish-American girl grows up poor in early-twentieth-century Williamsburg on her mother's stubbornness and her doomed father's charm, and the Brooklyn she walks to school in is its own weather.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants in a Brooklyn brownstone during the Depression and the war, grows up caught between her dreaming father and her mother, who is set on buying the house whatever it costs.