Lattes & Lit Book Club Discussion of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents"

The Lattes and Lit Book Club is excited to partner with the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for a discussion of Julia Alvarez's novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents on Tuesday, March 24, from 5:00-6:00 pm in the Murray Room, 5th floor of Lauinger Library. 

From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." ( The New York Times Book Review )

The discussion will be co-facilitated by Maggie Dunlap and Mary Beringause, Doctoral Students in Spanish and members of the Student Library Council. RSVP FOR A FREE COPY OF THE BOOK PROVIDED BY THE LANNAN CENTER!

After the discussion, we'll walk over to Healy Hall together for the Lannan Literary Festival where Julia Alvarez's will read from her latest poetry collection, Visitations, and engage in conversation with radio host Georgina Godwin. The poems in Visitations reflect on change across the arc of decades—family, aging, love, the body, finding voice, and the very act of poetry itself.

Lattes and Lit book club is open to all Georgetown students, faculty, and staff. Our meetings provide an excellent opportunity to discuss books and socialize, network, and share diverse perspectives with people across academic departments, roles, and generations in a no-pressure environment. The Midnight Mug, which co-sponsors Lattes and Lit with the Library, also supplies coffee and other tasty treats!