TY - BOOK AU - Alvarez,Julia TI - The cemetery of untold stories: a novel SN - 9781643753843 PY - 2024/// CY - Chapel Hill, North Carolina PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill KW - Women novelists KW - Fiction KW - Characters and characteristics in literature KW - Cemeteries KW - Storytelling KW - Dominican Republic KW - Magic realist fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction KW - Novels N2 - "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."-- ER -