I Lived on Butterfly Hill (The Butterfly Hill Series)

I Lived on Butterfly Hill (The Butterfly Hill Series)

An eleven-year-old€s world is upended by political turmoil in this €œlyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification€ (<I >Kirkus Reviews</I>) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile.<br><br>Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chile€"until one day when warships are spotted in the harbor and schoolmates start disappearing from class without a word. Celeste doesn€t quite know what is happening, but one thing is clear: no one is safe, not anymore.<br> <br>The country has been taken over by a government that declares artists, protestors, and anyone who helps the needy to be considered €œsubversive€ and dangerous to Chile€s future. So Celeste€s parents€"her educated, generous, kind parents€"must go into hiding before they, too, €œdisappear.€ Before they do, however, they send Celeste to America to protect her.<br> <br>As Celeste adapts to her new life in Maine, she never stops dreaming of Chile. But even after democracy is restored to her home country, questions remain: Will her parents reemerge from hiding? Will she ever be truly safe again?<br> <br>Accented with interior artwork, steeped in the history of Pinochet€s catastrophic takeover of Chile, and based on many true events, this multicultural ode to the power of revolution, words, and love is both indelibly brave and heartwrenchingly graceful.