Glad to be back on this BEAUTIFUL Monday!
One of the great things about the class I'm taking in graduate school right now is that I'm being exposed to a lot of books that I wouldn't have read on my own. This week's book is a prime example of that. I'm not a big lover of historical fiction or books about revolution, but I could not put this book down once I picked it up. (Actually, I read this on ebook, so I had to put it down on occasion because my phone died.)
This story is set in the 1960s in the Dominican Republic where they are ruled over by a dictator that has been in power for 30 years. Anita is twelve and, as such, wrapped up in things that twelve year olds are wrapped up in. She wants to be friends with her older sister, who is annoyed with her very existence. She wants the boy next door to fall in love with her. She wants to be older and more sophisticated.
Anita's father, however, is in the top ranks among the country's revolutionaries who aim to take down their dictator. The rest of her family, from her grandparents to her cousins, have already fled to New York. Once Anita learns of her father's involvement, she gets anxious. Her sister even ends up having to flee the country because the dictator happened to notice her at a party and takes a special liking to her.
Eventually, the plan that the revolutionaries have been working on is played out, but something goes wrong and Anita and her mother end up having to go into hiding.
It is a small book, not even 200 pages long, but the content is big. I found it hard to resist!
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