The lives and legacy of the iconic Mirabal
sisters, as told in an intimate memoir by the sister who survived In 1960, the
three sisters Patria, Minerva, and Mar a Teresa Mirabal, code-named "Las Mariposas" (The Butterflies)
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,...