It is 1960 in the Dominican Republic and twelve-year-old Anita de la Torre?s favorite uncle has disappeared.

Author: Julia Alvarez
Format: Paperback
Published: Random House, 2002

It is 1960 in the Dominican Republic and twelve-year-old Anita de la Torre?s favorite uncle has disappeared. Indeed, her entire family is acting strangely, and Anita is getting scared. As she contends with growing up and her first crush, she also experiences the realities of life in a dictatorship and struggles to remain hopeful. The beloved and critically acclaimed author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies now tells a historically accurate, emotionally gripping story for young adults.