World Literature Today, September 22nd, 1995
The Dominican-born author Julia Alvarez's first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (see WLT 66:3, p. 516), was named a Notable Book of 1991 by the New York Times Book Review. Her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, reaffirms her considerable gifts as a writer. Political yet tender, it portrays the injustices of tyranny as seen through the eyes of four Dominican women, three of whom were murdered by a Trujillo death squad in 1960.
According to the fictionalized account, at a reception late that year Trujillo said, "My only two problems are the damn church and the Miraba...
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