The Cemetery of Untold Stories Hardcover Book by Julia Alvarez

'The Cemetery of Untold Stories' by Julia Alvarez. Alma Cruz, an aging writer, inherits land in the Dominican Republic and decides to build a “cemetery” for all her unfinished manuscripts. She wants to bury these stories so they no longer haunt her. But when some drafts—like one about her father and another about a forgotten wife of dictator Trujillo—refuse to be destroyed, their characters begin to “come alive” and tell their own truths. With the help of Filomena, a local caretaker, Alma learns that stories have lives of their own and that silenced voices eventually demand to be heard. The novel explores memory, regret, history, and the power of storytelling.