The cemetery of untold stories: a novel
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Alma Cruz 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. Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories.
Subjects
Dominican Republic -- History -- Fiction.
Fictitious characters -- Death -- Fiction.
Hispanic Americans -- Fiction.
Latin Americans -- Fiction.
Manuscripts -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Unfinished books -- Fiction.
Women authors -- Fiction.
Women novelists -- Fiction.
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Alvarez, J. (2024). The cemetery of untold stories: a novel. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. 2024. The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Alvarez, Julia, The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
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