In The Time of the Butterflies-English

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Description

An excerpt of "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez.
Read for the NEA-Big Read Project.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

Spanish (General) Spanish (Latino)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
usually at night I hear them just as I'm falling asleep. Sometimes I lie at the very Brengle. Forget for this waiting as if their arrival is my signal that I can fall asleep. But tonight is quieter than I can remember. Concentrate they I say. But all I hear is my own breathing on the blessed silence off the school Clear nights under the anoca wheat a tree before anyone breathes a word of the future. I see them all there in my memory as still as statues. My mind, Papa let me never on muddy on Pata and I'm thinking something is missing now and I count them old twice before I realise it's me. Did they? It's me, the one who survived to tell the story. Thanks for joining the Big Read. This program was created by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.