In the Time of the Butterflies Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters three young wives and mothers who are assass

Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican RepublicSet during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures known as las mariposas, or the butterflies, in the underground as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered Alvarez s controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as the butterflies near their horrific end The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters brave and outspoken Minerva, the family s political ringleader pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee.
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Julia lvarez was born in New York City Her parents moved back to the Dominican Republic when lvarez was 3 months old and she was raised there until she was 10, when the family moved back to NYC She is currently writer in residence at Middlebury College and the owner of a coffee farm named Alta Gracia, near Jarabacoa in the mountains of the Dominican Republic The farm hosts a school to teach local farmers and their families how to read and write.