In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
Three sisters who fought Trujillo. One survived to remember.
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The Mirabal sisters — Patria, Dedé, Minerva, María Teresa — were the most famous opponents of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Three of them were assassinated in 1960. Dedé survived and spent the rest of her life carrying the story. Alvarez imagines the interior lives of all four sisters across the decades of resistance. A dispatch about what it costs women to decide that freedom matters more than safety — and about the survivor's specific burden of continuing to live when the others didn't.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Dominican Republic • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Dominican author
- Themes
- Generations
