Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Before We Were Free by Julia Alverez


This is a great story to read. Anita de la Torre who lived in the Dominican Republic began to question her freedom. At first, Tio Toni had disappeared and the SIM began to terrorize them asking where he may be. Their dictator was in desperate need of finding him. Anita had to crack codes that her family was keeping and soon found out what she knew wasn't something she should have known. As the months go by, her family members go one by one to the United States. Majority of her family are living in New York waiting for the rest of Anita's family to come.
During the story Anita becomes a young lady. She struggles through many things and uses her family's courage and the strength to make it through tough times in the Dominican Republic.

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