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The Cemetery of Untold Stories

by Julia Alvarez

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Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. “Only an alchemist as wise and sure as Alvarez could swirl the elements of folklore and the flavor of magical realism around her modern prose and make it all sing . . . Lively, joyous . . . often witty, occasionally somber and elegiac.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, The New York Times Book Review "Engaging and written in a playful, crystal-clear prose, this novel explores friendship, love, sisterhood, living between cultures, and how people can be haunted by the things they don’t finish . . . Entertaining . . .…

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"The Cemetery of Untold Stories is a novel about being haunted by the stories we don’t write. A mix of folklore and magical realism, this is an entertaining story about a writer who uses a chunk of land to bury her characters so they can rest in peace and then must deal with the consequences of said characters developing a mind of their own. Another great innovative novel from a literary icon."
NPR Books We Love — 2024 · apps.npr.org
AudioFile Editors
"Cuervo’s warm, rich timbre and measured style suit this captivating audiobook. Her delivery works perfectly as she emulates the author’s empathetic tone and wit. This is a vividly imagined story of a novelist whose nom de plume is Scheherazade. She leaves Vermont and returns to her native Dominican Republic to bury her untold (unfinished) works. (9 hours)"
The Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024 · fivebooks.com