Before we were free

Type

Book

Authors

Alvarez, Julia

ISBN 13

9780375815447

Tags

Attempted Assassination, Escapes, families, girls, loss, personal diaries, Political prisoners, revolutions, Separated Friends, relatives, Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas, Twelve-year-old girls

Abstract

In the Dominican Republic of 1960, Anita de la Torre is baffled when her "best-friend cousins" suddenly leave the country for the U.S. and the secret police show up at her extended family's compound. When her uncle disappears and her parents seem increasingly nervous and secretive, Anita begins keeping a diary to sort things out. This novel describes -- from a young girl's perspective -- the bloody rule of the dictator General Trujillo and the attempts to overthrow his regime. -- Description by Rebecca Honeycutt.

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