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bonnie_the_book_lady 's review for:
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
by Julia Alvarez
This one is reminiscent on a smaller scale to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s writing. Many Latinx characters. It felt at times to this reader as if I needed to take notes to keep their stories straight. Alma is an accomplished writer nearing her later years. When her father passes away, she takes an undesirable parcel of land as her portion of the estate. There she creates an unfinished stories cemetery to lay the stories she could not finish to rest. She hires an artist to design headstones and a caretaker to do menial labor while listening to the stories which come on the wind. There are several flashback stories which give historical background to the DR, NYC, and Toronto. The language is rich. The stories full of dark overtones. The author leaves much untold, just as her cemetery holds unfinished stories.