by Julia Alvarez
CMSW, hardcover, 325 pages
The four Mirabel sisters are realistically portrayed in this story about growing up under dictator Jose Trujillo in Dominican Republic. Many of the characters and events in this story are true, but this is a fictionalized story.
I started out listening to this as a Playaway (mp3), but it was hard for me to understand some of the names - though it was beautiful to listen to the reader's accent.
The story was told from each of the sisters' perspectives (Patria, Minerva, Dede, and Maria Teresa) and from 1943-1994 (but jumping around chronocologically). This was an intense and fascinating read, but much more complex than I had expected. I had initially hoped to use this with students as a lit circle title, but they would have to be mature readers.
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