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In the Time of the Butterflies

Julia Alvarez

Start date: July 1, 2021

Finish date: July 30, 2021

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Why we're reading this: Country and/or Territory: Djibouti, Dominica or Dominican Republic

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Mar 09, 2014 Jeanne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-women, read-around-the-world, read-2014

Why do people stand up in the face of wrongs, even when afraid? This fictionalized biography of the Mirabal sisters answers this question, providing sympathetic, well-drawn portraits without sainting them in the process, an easy response to martyrs.

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Apr 02, 2014 Donna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: multicultural, historical-fiction, family-life, award-winner, young-adult-lit-fiction, other-diversity, race-relations, murder, death, relationships

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". ...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Alana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: political, biographical, historical-fiction, history, foreign-culture

I'm ashamed to say, before picking up this book I knew abosolutely nothing about the Dominican Republic or the regime of Trujillo. Sadly, it seems there have been so many dictators in modern history that some of them become smaller and more commonplace. This novel opened a new area of interest for me into another country's history and culture, and the story of The Butterflies.

That being said, the novel itself, while interesting, was not the most engaging tale I've ever read. I had a hard time co ...more

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