![]() ![]() With this knowledge, she finds parallels between her own burgeoning womanhood, her personal desire for freedom and the struggles of her oppressed country. ![]() As Anita bears witness to disturbing cultural shifts under Trujillo, she discovers her own family is part of a dangerous underground resistance against the government. Anita is 12 years old and living under the bloody reign of Rafael Trujillo, the real-world dictator who controlled the Dominican Republic until his assasination in 1961. The historical-fiction book centers on Anita de la Torre. A similar young adult work that examines difficult political circumstances and childrens experience of them is Before We Were Free (2003), told from the perspective of a young girl in the Dominican Republic in the months before and just after the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo. ![]() With Before We Were Free, a coming-of-age tale published in 2002, Alvarez takes readers to the country that she knew as a young girl. Julia Alvarez made a name for herself in the literary community with her critically acclaimed 1991 novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, which drew inspiration from her own family’s migration from the Dominican Republic to the U.S. ![]()
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