![]() Her crush on the American boy next door is at first as important as knowing that the maid is almost certainly working for the secret police and spying on them later, as Anita understands the implications of the adult remarks she overhears, her voice becomes anxious and the tension mounts. The perspective remains securely Anita's, and Alvarez's pitch-perfect narration will immerse readers in Anita's world. ![]() Alvarez relays the terrors of the Trujillo regime in a muted but unmistakable tone for a while, Anita's parents protect her (and, by extension, readers), both from the ruler's criminal and even murderous ways and also from knowledge of their involvement in the planned coup d'état. with their parents Anita's own immediate family are now the only ones occupying the extended family's compound. The story opens as 12-year-old narrator Anita watches her cousins, the García girls, abruptly leave for the U.S. ![]() Here she brings her warmth, sensitivity and eye for detail to a volatile setting-the Dominican Republic of her childhood, during the 1960–1961 attempt to overthrow Trujillo's dictatorship. In her first YA novel, Alvarez ( How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) proves as gifted at writing for adolescents as she is for adults. ![]()
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