Books like In the Time of the Butterflies
The four Mirabal sisters grow up in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, and three of them become the Butterflies, leaders of the underground resistance.
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How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.
The Farming of Bones
Amabelle Désir, a Haitian orphan working as a maid in the Dominican Republic, is in love with Sebastien, a cane cutter, in 1937, as Trujillo's soldiers begin the massacre of Haitians.
The Henna Artist
In Jaipur in 1955, Lakshmi Shastri, who fled an abusive marriage at seventeen, has made herself the most sought-after henna artist among the city's wealthy women, until a younger sister she never knew she had turns up at her door.
Savushun
In Shiraz during the Second World War, with foreign armies occupying Iran, Zari watches her husband Yusof, a landowner, refuse to sell his grain to them.
A Golden Age
Rehana Haque, a widow in Dhaka, will do anything for her two grown children, who join the fight for Bangladesh's independence in 1971.
All That I Am
Ruth Becker, an old woman in Sydney, remembers her youth in Berlin among the German left in the 1930s, and the exile in London with the playwright Ernst Toller and her cousin Dora.
Here Comes the Sun
Margot works at a resort hotel in Montego Bay and sells herself to tourists to keep her younger sister Thandi in school, while developers plan to build over their village.
The Lost Girls of Paris
In 1946, Grace Healey finds a suitcase abandoned under a bench in Grand Central Terminal and inside it photographs of twelve women, agents sent into occupied France by a British network led by Eleanor Trigg, who never came home.
The Nightingale
In occupied France, two sisters fight the war in different ways: Vianne, forced to billet a German officer in her home, and the younger Isabelle, who joins the Resistance, both at devastating cost.
In the Country of Men
In Tripoli in 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman watches his dissident father vanish into Qaddafi's purges, and his mother drink to forget.
The Calamity Club
In Oxford, Mississippi, in 1933, Meg, an eleven-year-old left by her mother at the county orphan asylum for girls, and Birdie, who has come to town to beg her socialite sister for money to save the family home, find their lives tangling together in the depths of the Depression.
Of Women and Salt
In Miami in 2018 Jeanette, newly sober, goes to Cuba to learn about her family from her grandmother, and the story reaches back to her great-great-grandmother in a Camagüey cigar factory in 1866.