1. In the Time of the Butterflies

11. “We were the family that got out and came the US
“We were the family that got out and came the US. We got out and [others] didn’t make it. And so what is the responsibility of those that survive? To remember, and to remind. It’s through telling the story that we really understand the full complexity of what happened to us. Not just the fact, not just the either-or, but the full text, textured complexity of a dictatorship and how we got out of it.”
~Julia Alvarez