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1 kwi 2024 · In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a graveyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives.
2 kwi 2024 · Julia Alvarez has written a new writer (Alma Cruz) into the world grown wearied of writing, and ready to be done with its detritus. Alma herds her cats (metaphorical), bags them and heads to the Dominican Republic to bury them in inherited land she will "cemetery" and ensure they can Rest In Peace.
2 kwi 2024 · The Cemetery of Untold Stories. by Julia Alvarez. Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the bestselling author of IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES and HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.
2 kwi 2024 · Alma buys a plot of land in a working-class neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. Before she builds a casita to live in, she builds a cemetery for the stories. She burns the boxes—except for two that won’t catch fire—and inters them all.
2 kwi 2024 · The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez. Publication Date: April 2, 2024; Genres: Fiction; Hardcover: 256 pages; Publisher: Algonquin Books; ISBN-10: 1643753843; ISBN-13: 9781643753843
The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel by Julia Alvarez. By Julia Alvarez. VIEW DISCUSSION GUIDE. Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.
Review by Carole V. Bell. Magical and multifaceted, Julia Alvarez’s meditation on creativity, culture and aging, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is a triumph.
