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In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez. Penguin USA: 1995 (paperback). ISBN: 0452274427. 321 pages.
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Julia Alvarez's family emigrated from the Dominican Republic in 1960, seeking
refuge from the Dominican tyrant Trujillo in the United States. Alvarez first came to American literary attention with the
publication of her novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, a story about four sisters making the difficult
adjustments required of immigrants. But Alvarez never forgot four real life sisters who never got the chance to escape, or
to begin a new life. In the Time of the Butterflies tells the story of the four Mirabel sisters, privileged young
women who trade in their easy lives for ones of terrible hardship and danger in order to resist Trujillo's bloody
dictatorship. Alvarez imagines the winding paths that led the sisters from luxury to rebellion, from static security to the
defining moment of their lives, a moment that made international press. Alvarez's fluid, often irreverent writing captures
the Mirabel's defiant spirit of freedom, a spirit that still inspires a nation to exclaim, "¡Vivan Las Mariposas!"
This novel is on our company co-founder Ellen Moore's personal all-time favorite list. "Awesome, awesome, awesome," she says,
"and I don't mean that in a cheesy 'whoa, dude' surfer sort of way, but in the original sense of the word."
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