Victoria T. (justicepirate) reviewed on + 350 more book reviews
Although the Mirabel sisters were real during the Trujillo dictatorship of the Dominican, this book is written in a fictional voice for each of the 4 sisters. The author did an amazing job creating a tale for each of the sisters in a perspective of what their lives MAY have been like, but were not truly how it was. The stories were believable regardless, and I will say that I don't know anything about what they were like at all, so if you actually know the true history of them, perhaps you won't enjoy this story at all. One of my sisters-in-law told me she enjoyed this story and suggested I read it. It was good and definitely made me feel the emotions of each of the girls/women.
Dede is the one who survived. She gives a perspective of being the second born Mirabel sister who remembers what her sisters were like before they died and what he life has been like constantly being asked about them and why she was not with them when they were murdered. She starts off the whole story set in 1994 and looks back on her childhood.
The perspective then changes throughout the story with the eldest Patria, who is the relgious one who just wants to be a good wife and mother but sees that fighting for justice with her sisters in seeing Trujillo's reign come to an end.
Minerva, the third born has the most strength and is the one who gets changed drastically first and longs to be educated further than anyone in her family. She loves to talk politics with many and is willing to train and go into the mountains if she has to. She is not as interested in becoming a wife or mother. She is the one who tries to influence her sisters best she can.
Then there is Maria Teresa, the baby who has a slight age gap compared to the rest of her sisters. She wears her hair in braids all her life and has her eyes opened little by little until she is full fledged attached to Minerva with her outspokenness. She perhaps suffers the greatest difficulties but finds strength. She cannot give up.
Not only does this story really tell about what these women could have endured, but it shows what life was like for the people in that time as well as how men acted and why these women were adored and looked up to by others and hated by leaders of the country. They were known as "butterflies" by those who admired them.
Dede is the one who survived. She gives a perspective of being the second born Mirabel sister who remembers what her sisters were like before they died and what he life has been like constantly being asked about them and why she was not with them when they were murdered. She starts off the whole story set in 1994 and looks back on her childhood.
The perspective then changes throughout the story with the eldest Patria, who is the relgious one who just wants to be a good wife and mother but sees that fighting for justice with her sisters in seeing Trujillo's reign come to an end.
Minerva, the third born has the most strength and is the one who gets changed drastically first and longs to be educated further than anyone in her family. She loves to talk politics with many and is willing to train and go into the mountains if she has to. She is not as interested in becoming a wife or mother. She is the one who tries to influence her sisters best she can.
Then there is Maria Teresa, the baby who has a slight age gap compared to the rest of her sisters. She wears her hair in braids all her life and has her eyes opened little by little until she is full fledged attached to Minerva with her outspokenness. She perhaps suffers the greatest difficulties but finds strength. She cannot give up.
Not only does this story really tell about what these women could have endured, but it shows what life was like for the people in that time as well as how men acted and why these women were adored and looked up to by others and hated by leaders of the country. They were known as "butterflies" by those who admired them.
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