03042cim a2200385 i 4500 2533715516 TxAuBib 20190828120000.0 r 250813s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9798891780620 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT16381081 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Alvarez, Julia, author. The Cemetery of Untold Stories [Hoopla] / Julia Alvarez. Unabridged. [United States : Recorded Books, Inc., 2024. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 56 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Alma Cuervo. Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself that will be an instant classic. 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 revisions, 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 the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener as Alma's characters unspool their secret tales. Among them: Bienvenida, the abandoned second wife of dictator Rafael Trujillo, consigned to oblivion by history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States. The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. 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. Readers of Isabel Allende's Violeta and Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead will devour Alvarez's extraordinary new novel about beauty and authenticity that reminds us the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Hispanic Americans Fiction. Literature Fiction. Fiction. lcgft Cuervo, Alma, 1951-, reader. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/16379864?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hhh711 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/rbd_9798891780620_180.jpeg Cover image RV8