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For courageous sisters ( the Mirabals) resist Trujillo in the Dominican Republic #inthetimeofthebutterflies #juliaalvarez https://www.instagram.com/p/CTpFhk-rqtm/?utm_medium=tumblr

Sunday Sunday! Spotlight today features a contemporary conventional novel by Julia Alvarez, AFTERLIFE. Sometimes it’s good to read a story that is well crafted without any beyond the pale literary devices or tricks. Just good writing and good story telling that will subtlety challenge your comfort zones. My brief thoughts 👉🏿 This is a quick read and well crafted story that does what good literature is designed to do. Challenge the reader, force contemplation, empathize. Julia Alvarez manages to do all this through her protagonist Antonia Vega, who is widowed at the exposition, hence the title. How do I form a life, after having led a pretty decent life? Well Antonia has three sisters who add to that challenge in sometimes humorous but always loving ways. They have the standard sibling disagreements that are present amongst most families but they strongly support one another. Alvarez’s prose is clever and subtle and laced with biting humor. A truly enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. ✅✅✅✅. #ownvoicesreviews #afterlife #juliaalvarez #bookpusher #bookreviews #pushingbooksainteasy #readmorebooks #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #goodliterary #bibliophile #idratherbereading (at Houston, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM-BQrhrfaE/?igshid=6jf2gprbzvvx

Today's #AWeekofLatinxLit prompt is favorite fiction. QOTD: What are favorite Latinx fiction/ historical fiction books? In the Time of Butterflies is one of my favorite books of all time and it is one I gift and recommend frequently. Latinx historical fiction is a genre I can't get enough of and latinx fiction with strong female leads take the cake. I picked up this book after not reading for many years and it re-sparked my love for Latinx stories. I love Julia Alvarez's work but las mariposas will always hold a special place in my heart. This novel has great historical significance and beautiful storytelling. Here are some of my favorite quotes: 🦋 "I'd just left a small cage to go into a bigger one, the size of our whole country." 🦋 It's about time we women had a voice in running our country." 🦋 "Everything is for sale here, everything except your freedom." 🦋 " I was looking at the world through a curtain of tears." 🦋 "Voz del Pueblo, voz del cielo." 🦋 "Sometimes I really feel it here, especially late at night, a current among us, like an invisible needle stitching us together into the glorious, free nation we are becoming." #inthetimeofbutterlifes #juliaalvarez #LatinxHeritageMonth #latinxreads #latinxbookstagram #ownvoices #weneeddiversebooks #bookworm #bookdragon #dignidadliteraria #readersforequality #bibliophile #readlatinxallyearround #bookgal #latinxliterature #latinxreviewer (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVtbTXApS7/?igshid=45jf2728tg8n

SAVE THE DATE 🇩🇴🇱🇮 VIA • @dominicanwriters Angela Abreu of Dominican Writers invites you to a Cafecito con Julia Alvarez, La Madrina of Border of Lights. 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝗔𝗠. About Border of Lights: Every year people from around the world come together under the banner of Border of Lights to peacefully commemorate the anniversary of the 1937 Massacre. They come together to breathe life to a tragedy long forgotten, for some, a tragedy they never knew took place. Also known as el Corte (The Cut), when Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, ordered the slaughter of as many as 15,000 Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent on the Dominican-Haitian border. This conversation will be the first of a series of events to follow to commemorate this tragic moment in history. #juliaalvarez #borderoflights #haitianmassacreof1937 #dominicanwriters https://www.instagram.com/p/CFc3yI0JnLB/?igshid=zu8u8cx31p0z