“How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” is a novel by Julia Alvarez.Julia Alvarez’s acclaimed novel “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” is next in the Take Five literary series at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Dr. Lynn Purkey, a University of Chattanooga Foundation Professor of Spanish and associate department head, will lead the free discussion, which runs from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the Chattanooga Rooms of the University Center off East Fifth Street.
Free campus parking is available after 5 p.m. This 12th edition of Take Five, a town-and-gown series, focuses on multiethnic American literature.
Purkey’s novel is about the culture changes experienced by four sisters who immigrate to the United States from the Dominican Republic.
For more information, call 423-425-4627.