{"product_id":"book-i23r","title":"The Cemetery of Untold Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself that will be an instant classic.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eAlma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of \u003cem\u003eThe Cemetery of Untold Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eAlma 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. \u003cem\u003eThe Cemetery of Untold Stories\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eListeners of Isabel Allende’s Violeta and Barbara Kingsolver’s \u003cem\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/em\u003e will devour Alvarez’s extraordinary novel about beauty and authenticity that reminds us the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49351293108528,"sku":"BDi23r","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49351293206832,"sku":"ZEi23r","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49351293239600,"sku":"ZMi23r","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/544136-i23r-Square.jpg?v=1734307847","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-i23r","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}