I Lived on Butterfly Hill: Volume 1

Marjorie Agosin

Mar 2020 · I Lived on Butterfly Hill Book 1 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Kyla García

About this audiobook

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. The country has been taken over by a government that declares artists, protestors, and anyone who helps the needy to be considered "subversive" and dangerous to Chile's future. So Celeste's parents-her educated, generous, kind parents-must go into hiding before they, too, "disappear." Before they do, however, they send Celeste to America to protect her. 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?

About the author

Marjorie Agosin is the Pura Belpre Award-winning author of I Lived on Butterfly Hill. She has received the Letras de Oro Prize for her poetry, and her writings about-and humanitarian work for-women in Chile have been the focus of feature articles in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Ms. magazine.

Kyla Garcia is a film, stage, and television actress based in Los Angeles, California. She has earned an Audie Award nomination and seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for her work as an audiobook narrator.