The Cemetery of Untold Stories
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About the Book
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Celebrated writer 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.
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
- Publication Date: April 2, 2024
- Genres: Fiction
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Algonquin Books
- ISBN-10: 1643753843
- ISBN-13: 9781643753843