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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and#160;shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland of the Dominican Republic. and#160; 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 revisions, and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. and#160; Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener as Alma’s characters unspool their secret tales. Among them: Bienvenida, the abandoned second wife of dictator Rafael Trujillo, consigned to oblivion by history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States. and#160; The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. 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. and#160; Alvarez’s extraordinary novel reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Algonquin Books, 2024. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. |
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Fiction.
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Literature.
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Electronic books.
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Original 9781643753843 |
| ISBN |
9781643756066 (electronic bk) |
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