![]() ![]() ![]() I had heard about the 31-year regime of Rafael Trujillo from my mother, who lived through it, but I’d never come across a novel depicting that period. ![]() The back jacket informed me that the book on my classroom shelf was about Dominicans who emigrated from the island during the dictatorship. The author’s name was one I recognized because one of her books had been recently adapted into a film. There, on the shelf of books that seemed less shelf than treasure chest, was a novel with a title that called out to me. I was in middle school, searching for a silent reading book in my classroom library. The first meeting was figurative: I met her through her writing. I’ve had the grand pleasure of meeting Julia Alvarez twice. ![]()
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