![]() ![]() They would rather do it in their own countries if they could. ![]() It’s something we all feel, the desire to have a viable, decent life for ourselves and our families. Not everybody, but for so many immigrants (the decision) is out of some dire necessity, whether it’s economic or political. And it would give me goosebumps to think there were four sisters, three of them were murdered, one of them survived to tell the story, and we - my sisters and I - were four sisters, as well.” It was a way for me to understand my parents’ generation and what had happened to them. But I’ve been living and researching that story all my life. “People ask, ‘How long did this take you to write?’ Probably 3 1/2 years, the actual writing. “It was a story that got into my bloodstream,” says Alvarez, who would become one of the most acclaimed Latina writers of her generation. The sisters were murdered just three months later. Her father also was part of the anti-Trujillo movement and, fearing arrest, fled back to the United States with his family in August 1960. She was born in New York City but spent virtually all of the first 10 years of her life in her parents’ native Dominican Republic. We see the nobility that’s in us.”įor Alvarez, 66, the connection to the Mirabals was more personal. Something gets stirred, some understanding of what we’re capable of. “People want so much to connect with the story - it’s not my story, I just put it in a published form - and many of them go down to the Dominican Republic and visit the museum that’s been set up where the girls lived.
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