The cemetery of untold stories : a novel
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Author
Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781643753843, 1643753843
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781643753843, 1643753843
Notes
Description
"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 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. 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. Julia Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end." --publisher's website
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction - New | FICTION ALVAREZ | Available |
Bernardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - New | FIC ALVAREZ, JULIA | Checked Out |
Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Fiction - New | FIC ALVAREZ | Checked Out |
Denville Library - Adult Fiction - New | FICTION ALVAREZ | Checked Out |
Dover Library - Adult Fiction - New | MCN FIC ALV | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Alvarez, J. (2024). The cemetery of untold stories: a novel (First edition.). Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. 2024. The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel First edition., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
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