Alive in Their Garden

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.

In 1960, cele trei surori Patria, Minerva si Maria Teresa Mirabal, numite de cod ,,Las Mariposas" de catre o miscare de rezistenta clandesta dominicana, au fost asasinate din ordinul dictatorului Rafael Trujillo. Alive in Their Garden este memoriile lui Ded Mirabal, sora lor supravietuitoare, care timp de decenii si-a pastrat surorile in viata in memoria dominicanelor.