SOURCE: "Las Mariposas," in The Nation, New York, Vol. 259, No. 15, November 7, 1994, pp. 552, 554-56.
In the following mixed review, Stavans calls In the Time of the Butterflies "simultaneously invigorating and curiously disappointing."
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