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In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez
The four Mirabal sisters grow up in a happy family home in the Dominican Republic when Trujillo comes to power. As they grow from young girls into young adults and mothers themselves, they become more aware of the injustices, dangers, violence and terror of life under his regime where the wrong words or place at the wrong time can find your whole family at risk. Minerva, Patria, Dede and Mate (Maria Teresa) don't want to become revolutionaries but find themselves with no other option and end up doing whatever they can to resist and bring hope to their people, ending up with them and their husbands jailed and eventually killed (except for Dede) before seeing any change that they worked for eventuate. A well told story with lots of lively characters, which helped me understand this time and place in history that I wasn't familiar with.