Summary Of The Book 'How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents' 311 Words2 Pages Discussion 8 Caught Between Cultures In How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the characters caught between their native homelands the Dominican Republic culture and their new found country the United States culture which is not the only factors in this novel. Yolanda, a character in the story the third child, encounters sexuality and freedom vs. religious beliefs raised as a Catholic no premarital sex. She also faces prejudice against their race, language barriers and in earlier years adjusting to a different e...