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Always a fan of Julia Alvarez, I suggested this book to the Diversity in All Its Forms group. When they chose it for July, I decided to reread it so that I could participate in any discussion about it. Since I'd read it several years ago I didn't remember all the details. Rereading it was just as exciting as reading it the first time even though I knew how it was going to end.
The story is a fictionalized one of the four Mirabal sisters who were key to an underground resistance movement against ...more
The story is a fictionalized one of the four Mirabal sisters who were key to an underground resistance movement against ...more
A fictionalized account of the lives and very real murders, by members of Dominican Republic military dictator Rafael Leonides Trujillo's (c. 1890-1961) secret police, of las Mariposas (The Butterflies)--Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa Mirabal, along with their who dared oppose the regime. Julia Alvarez brings out the personalities of these brave women, through consultations with surviving sister Dede and her niece Minou. Gripping, powerful and heartbreaking, the story of these freedom fighter
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I really have no words to describe this book. It is based on the true story of the murder of the three Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic in 1994. Alvarez used fact along with some creative fiction to create the individual personalities of the sisters. I cried throughout the last 50 pages. We know from the beginning how this book is going to end but still we aren't prepared. As I've said often in my reviews of multicultural literature "Every culture has their own struggle".
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I read this book for National Hispanic Heritage Month. I had previously read How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and I enjoyed both books. I always hesitate starting about book about the Domincan Republic during the Trujillo era. It was such a dark and brutal period and I don't want to get mired in books about torture. Yet this book is not about torture. It is about four sisters trying to make sense and meaning in a difficult time. It is a book about resilience and hardship. It is a book abo
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Sep 09, 2019
Meg - A Bookish Affair
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