Join us to discuss The Cemetery of Unt old Stories by Julia Alvarez in the meeting room.
\nSummary pro vided by the publisher:
\nAlma Cruz\, the celebrated writer at the h eart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories\, doesn&rsquo\;t want to end up lik e her friend\, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book tha t 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 turn ing it into a place to bury her untold stories&mdash\;literally. She creat es a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and the characters whose lives sh e tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants he r 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 h er back\, rewriting and revising themselves. Filomena\, a local woman hire d as the groundskeeper\, becomes a sympathetic listener to the secret tale s unspooled by Alma's characters. Among them\, Bienvenida\, dictator Rafae l Trujillo's abandoned wife who was erased from the official history\, and Manuel Cruz\, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escape d to the United States.
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