Alive In Their Gardenthe True Story Of The Mirabal Sisters A

In 1960, the three sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, code-named “Las Mariposas” by a Dominican underground resistance movement, were assassinated by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. Alive in Their Garden is the memoir of Ded Mirabal, their surviving sister, who for decades kept her sisters alive in Dominican memory.