TY - BOOK AU - Alvarez,Julia TI - In the time of the butterflies SN - 1565120388 AV - 118 PQ 7409 A473i 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Chapel Hill, N.C. PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill KW - Mirabal, María Teresa, KW - Mirabal, Minerva, KW - Mirabal, Patria, KW - Women revolutionaries KW - Fiction KW - Novela dominicana KW - Literatura dominicana KW - Mujeres revolucionarias KW - República Dominicana KW - Novela KW - Historical fiction KW - Dominican Republic KW - History KW - 1930-1961 N1 - Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; UG; 5.8; 18; Also issued online N2 - The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents ER -