The Butterfly's Daughter

Name: The Butterfly's Daughter
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
ISBN: 9781441813008

Author: Mary Alice Monroe

Narrator: Mary Alice Monroe

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 05/03/2011

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, once again touches hearts with her lyrical, poignant, and moving novel The Butterfly’s Daughter!Every year, the monarch butterflies—las mariposas—fly more than two thousand miles on fragile wings to return to their winter home in Mexico. Now Luz Avila makes that same perilous journey south as she honors a vow to her beloved abuela—the grandmother who raised her—to return her ashes to her ancestral village. As Luz departs Milwaukee in a ramshackle old VW Bug, she finds her heart opened by a series of seemingly random encounters with remarkable women. In San Antonio, however, a startling revelation awaits: a reunion with a woman from her past. Together, the two cross into Mexico to await the returning monarchs in the little village Abuela called home, but they are also crossing a border that separates past from present . . . and truth from lies.

About Mary Alice Monroe

Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of Last Light over Carolina and Time Is a River as well as many other acclaimed novels. She received the 2008 Award for Writing from the South Carolina Center for the Book. An active conservationist, she lives in the lowcountry of South Carolina, where she is at work on her next novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Grace on July 11, 2011

The information about the monarch butterflies and their amazing annual migration was interesting, but I did not enjoy the mediocre, often trite prose, the uninteresting characters, or the entirely predictable plot. Also, did the author have to describe every thought or emotion of each character? It......more

Goodreads review by Virginia on July 09, 2012

This book had special meaning to me because I live in San Antonio TX and that city is one of the destinations that our heroine seeks in the book. I was made aware of the tradition of the Day of the Dead shortly after arriving in San Antonio many years ago but did not really know its history until I......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 13, 2013

LOVED THIS BOOK! I love Mary Alice Monroe and I thought The Beach House was my favorite, this is a very close runner up. I enjoy that she adds a factual note at the beginning of each chapter. There were parts that I was upset with in the relationships but they only enhanced the bond.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on April 25, 2012

I thoroughly enjoyed the relationships made by Luz Avila, a young woman who has decided to return her Grandmother's ashes to her homeland in Mexico that coincides with the annual 2,000 mile migration of the lovely Monarch butterfly from Canada to Mexico, as well as Dio de los Muertos (Day of the Dea......more

Goodreads review by Cristine on March 09, 2017

I love this book so much that I am sad that I will have to return it to the library. It was about the empowering journey and spiritual growth of a young woman intertwined with information about Monarch butterflies and their incredible migration and the Mexican culture with an emphasis on the Day of......more