In the Time of the Butterflies Summary
Julia Álvarez

In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez - 1994 Introduction In the postscript to In the Time of the Butterflies, published in 1994, Julia Alvarez explains that one purpose of writing the novel ... Read more

In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Only ten years old in 1960 when her family escaped their homeland, Julia Alvarez fled the brutal “justice” of the Dominican dictator Rafae... Read more

In her poetry and prose, Julia Alvarez (born 1950) has expressed her feelings about her immigration to the United States. She was born in New York City of Dominican parents, who returned to their nati... Read more

Julia Alvarez is a highly regarded writer and winner of many awards and fellowships, including the PEN Oakland Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Yaddo residency, with novels named ... Read more

In the following mixed review, Stavans calls In the Time of the Butterflies "simultaneously invigorating and curiously disappointing." Not long ago, I heard Julia Alvarez call attenti... Read more

Echevarría teaches Hispanic and comparative literature. In the following mixed review, he comments on character, plot, and theme in In the Time of the Butterflies. Hispanic writers in the Un... Read more

In the following review, Behar contextualizes In the Time of the Butterflies as a historical novel about Latina women and revolution. So often I have wondered: Where are the women among those gigan... Read more

In " In the Time of the Butterflies", the Mirabal sisters embark on a mission to rebel against the Dominican regime. Although they themselves die in the end, their cause lives on. "Many revolutionary ... Read more

The book "The Time of the Butterflies" starts with Dede, the second oldest Mirabal sister, narrating the story. Dede is the only sister who survived from the four Mirabal sisters and is still alive to... Read more