The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

Description: Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas and soon begin to defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener to the secret tales unspooled by Alma's characters. Among them, Bienvenida, dictator Rafael Trujillo's abandoned wife who was erased from the official history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States. The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories. Julia Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.

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Book Title: Cemetery of Untold Stories : a Novel

Book Series: Julia

UPC: 9781643753843

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Item Length: 9.3 in

Original Language: English

Vintage: No

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Format: Hardcover

Unit Type: Unit

ISBN: 9781643753843

Language: English

Item Height: 0.9 in

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Topic: Hispanic & Latino, Literary

Unit Quantity: 1

Item Width: 6.3 in

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Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Fiction

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Intended Audience: Adults

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Publication Year: 2024

Type: Novel

EAN: 9781643753843

Author: Julia Alvarez

Genre: Fiction

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Item Weight: 14.3 Oz

Number of Pages: 243 Pages