How did the author decide to portray the tension of living under a dictatorship through a child's perspective?
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How did the author decide to portray the tension of living under a dictatorship through a child's perspective?
Did anyone else feel the balance between hope and danger felt so real that it made the story more intense?
What inspired the setting of the Dominican Republic during that specific historical period?