chrismichcon 's review for:

The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

3.0

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I don't feel like I got to know any of these characters well enough, so I guess I'd have liked this to be longer. It was a good draft but generally felt unfinished to me. The magical realism was fun and delicate, and I enjoyed hearing the interconnect untold stories and wondering how "true" any of it is. The start of the novel with Alma's writer friend and her book didn't circle around well, and we spent so much time with this that it felt like a sharp turn into our later characters.