The cemetery of untold stories : a novel /
Alvarez, Julia,
The cemetery of untold stories : a novel / Julia Alvarez. - First edition. - 243 pages ; 24 cm.
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for 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."--
9781643753843 1643753843
2023032944
Women novelists--Fiction.
Characters and characteristics in literature--Fiction.
Cemeteries--Fiction.
Storytelling--Fiction.
Dominican Republic--Fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
The cemetery of untold stories : a novel / Julia Alvarez. - First edition. - 243 pages ; 24 cm.
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for 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."--
9781643753843 1643753843
2023032944
Women novelists--Fiction.
Characters and characteristics in literature--Fiction.
Cemeteries--Fiction.
Storytelling--Fiction.
Dominican Republic--Fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.