{"product_id":"cemetery-of-untold-stories-pb","title":"Cemetery Of Untold Stories PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLiterary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Cemetery of Untold Stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlma 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Cemetery of Untold Stories \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003easks: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181694152935,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/517OZ4HmYIL.webp?v=1781040271","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/cemetery-of-untold-stories-pb","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}