Prize Discussion Group

Thursdays from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. the Prize Discussion Group meets in Group Study Room #2 at the library for discussions of books written by prize-winning authors. The group has been meeting since 1991 with Norm Jaffe as the group coordinator and Bob Bergeron as the group discussion leader. In August the group will be discussing the following books – 

August 14 and 21 In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Alvarez sets the story in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. The true story of the three Mirabal sisters who in 1960 were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government inspired the author to write about their imagined teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution and their terror as their dissidence is uncovered.  The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement.