Dominican-American author Julia Alvarezās most famous books are the novels How the GarcĆa Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) and In the Time of the Butterflies(1994). How the GarcĆa Girls Lost Their Accents, which was Alvarezās debut, centers on four sisters as they deal with growing up in a new cultural environment. In the Time of the Butterflies is a fictionalized account of the Dominican Mirabal sisters, who were involved in the underground movement to overthrow the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
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