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Julia Alvarez is the award-winning author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. Her highly acclaimed books for young readers include The Secret Footprints, A Gift of Gracias, the Tía Lola series, Finding Miracles, and Return to Sender. Alvarez has won numerous awards for her work, including the Pura Belpré and Américas awards for her children’s books, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. In 2013, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama. She is currently a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College and, together with her husband, Bill Eichner, established Alta Gracia, a sustainable coffee farm/literacy center in the Dominican Republic. Visit her on the Web at juliaalvarez.com.

Chapter 3Now that the SIM are gone and the Washburns are living next door, Mami and Papi decide we can go back to school. But first, Mami sits us down. "I don't want you talking about what happened with your friends, she warns. "Why not?" I want to know. Mami quotes one of Chucha's sayings, "'No flies fly into a closed mouth.'" The less said, the better. "And that includes talking to Susie and Sammy," Mami adds, eyeing Lucinda and me. Lucinda has become friends with Sammy's older sister, just as I have with Sammy. Poor Mundín is stuck without a new friend. But he says he doesn't care. Papi is giving him extra responsibility, taking him to work the days we aren't in school. Some nights after supper, Mundín gets to drive the car up and down all the driveways that connect the houses in the compound. "If anything happens to me," Papi says from time to time, ((you're the man of the house." "If he wants to be the man of the house, he's going to have to stop biting his nails," Mami says, breaking the tense silence that follows such remarks. The night before going back to school, I spend a long time picking out my outfit, as if I'm getting ready for the first day of classes. Finally, I settle on the parrot skirt Mami made me in imitation of the poodle skirt all the American girls are wearing. But even after everything is laid out, I feel apprehensive about going back. Everyone will be asking me why I've been absent for over two weeks. I myself don't understand why we weren't able to go to school just because the SIM were on our doorstep. After all, Papi still went to work every day. But Mami has refused to even discuss it. I go next door to Lucinda's room. My sister is setting her hair in rollers. Talk about torture! How can she sleep with those rods in her hair? For her outfit, she also picked out her skirt just like my parrot skirt, but she insisted on a poodle when Mami made hers. "Linda Lucinda," I butter her up. "What are we going to tell everyone at school? You know they're going to be asking us where we were." Lucinda sighs and rolls her eyes at herself in the mirror. She motions for me to come closer. "Don't talk in here," she whispers. "Why?" I say out loud. She gives me a disgusted look. "VAy?" I whisper in her ear. "Very funny," she says. I sit around until she's done with her rollers. Then she jerks her head for me to go out on the patio, where we can talk. "If people ask, just tell them we had the chicken pox, Lucinda says. "But we didn't." Lucinda closes her eyes until she regains her patience with me. "I know we didn't have the chicken pox, Anita. It's just a story, okayr, I nod. "But why didn't we really go to school?" Lucinda explains that after our cousins' departure, too many upsetting things have been happening and that's why Mami hasn't wanted us out of her sight. Raids by the SIM, like the one we had; arrests; accidents. "I heard Papi talking about some accident with butterflies or something, I tell her. "The Butterflies," Lucinda corrects me, nodding. "They were friends of Papi. He's really upset. Everyone is. Even the Americans are protesting." "Protesting what? Wasn't it a car accident?" Lucinda's rolls her eyes again at how little I know. "'Car accident" " she says, making quote marks in the air with her fingers, as if she doesn't really mean what she's saying. “You mean, they were-" "Shhh!" Lucinda hushes me. Suddenly, I understand. These women were murdered in a pre, tend accident! I shiver, imagining myself on the way to school, tumbling down a cliff, my parrot skirt flying up around me. Now I feel scared of leaving the compound. "So why send us to school at all?" "The Americans are our friends," Lucinda reminds me. "So for now, we're safe." I don't like the sound of "for now," or how Lucinda makes those quote marks in the air again when she says "we're safe." Mami is actually a lot calmer now that the Washburns have moved in. Not only is it nice to have the special protection of the consul next door, but the extra rent money is coming in handy. Construcciones de la Torre isn't doing well. Everything is at a standstill because of the embargo, whatever that is. We're having to cut corners and sell off our uncles' cars and the furniture from my grandparents' house from when Papito was making money. I offer to let Mami sell my brown oxfords and old-fashioned jumpers I don't like. But she smiles and says that won't be necessary just yet. Lucinda and I aren't the only ones to make friends with our neighbors. Manii starts a canasta group to introduce Mrs. Washbum to other Dominican ladies and help her practice her Spanish. Two or three tables are set up on the back patio. The ladies chat in lowered voices. Every once in a while, the new maid, Lorena, comes around with a tray of lemonades or clean ashtrays. Although Mami is trying to save money, there's too much work keeping up with all the houses in the compound for just Chucha. So Mami has hired the young girl to help out. But we have to be extra careful what we say around her. "Why?" I ask. "Because she's new?" Mami gives me a look that has "Cotonita! " written all over it. After I told Mami that her nickname for me was really getting on my nerves, she promised to stop using it. But she still lets me know with her eyes when I'm speaking up too much. "Just be careful what you say," Mami repeats. I guess you can't trust a maid who hasn't changed anyone's diaper in the family! Actually, I can't really complain about being asked to keep secrets. Sammy and I haven't said a word about our discovery. Twice we've gone back to Tfo Toni's casita only to find the door closed and the padlock in place. But there have been fresh footprints leading to and from the casita and a pile of cigarette butts, as if Someone without an ashtray has thrown them out the window. "Very fishy," Sammy observes, an expression which he says means that something strange is going on. Our compound is crawling with fish, all right.

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Paperback: 208 pages

Publisher: Ember; Reprint edition (March 27, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0399555498

ISBN-13: 978-0399555497

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I though this book we relatively well written. I read in en route to and from work and it managed to keep me captivated and not bored. The writing style was fluid and easy to follow without insulting the intelligence of the reader. As a fan of historical non-fiction/fiction writing I thought this novel was too the point and did not leave room for inaccuracies. I did feel that the ending was a bit abrupt and could have been completed a bit more cohesively - but life is never about smooth endings, sometimes things just end.

Would you risk your family's safety for freedom? Anita's father was a part of the Underground and was trying to come up with a way to assassin the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo. The theme of this story is to fight for your freedom, regardless the difficulties that come with that. Anita's family is all moving to the United States and she doesn't understand why. The SIM (secret police) came to the family compound and searched for evidence of the family's involvement with the Underground. The novel then branches out and stems in many different directions. Throughout the book you constantly wonder, will the family ever be free? Julia Alvarez puts this story together in chronological order and uses many different writing techniques. This book achieves its goal of showing how fighting for your freedom may come with tragedy and hardships, but in the end, being free is worth the fight. In the novel Mami states, "At first, your father didn't want to endanger his family. But sometimes life without freedom is no life at all." Freedom, for many people, is one of the most important things in life. The difficulties of Anita's family, with Trujillo and having her entire family moving to the United States really makes readers able to connect to the Dominicans of this time. This was a heartfelt and inspiring novel that I would recommend to all.

Very informative of living under a dictatorship.

This story did a good job leading the reader about the struggles living in the Dominican Republic during that era in time. The story was told thru one of the daughters. I felt her anxieties and happiness from her descriptions. At times the story kept me reading chapter to chapter in anticipation of what would happen next. I felt Ms. Alvarez ended the story too soon. She should have described more of their lives in America and how they survived for a few years.I have no complaints about the product, I received it quickly onto my kindle, which I love even though it is old. The only problem I have with my kindle is not having a brighter back light, so I can read it in the dark if I wish, without a light connecting to it.-rose

Wished the book had come without scotch tape on it. It looks like a good read.

This is the first book by Julia Alvarez that I have read, but I will happily now read everything she has written or writes.I love the sense of humour and the whimsical (for lack of another word) writing style, in spite of very moving and/or important stories, that many Latin writers have, and Julia Alvarez did not disappoint. Her style reminds me of Isabel Allende, one of my all-time favorite authors (I have ALL of her books).

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Great book to give you insight to the country. Recommended read before you visit.

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