Author

Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez is the Dominican-American novelist behind In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), Yo! (1997), and the more recent Afterlife (2020) and The Cemetery of Untold Stories (2024). In the Time of the Butterflies is the canonical contemporary American literary novel about the Mirabal sisters and the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.