Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel

This work of fiction by Julia Alvarez, author of the best-selling and acclaimed In the Time of the Butterflies, adds another novel to her repertoire exploring themes of multiculturalism, writing and artistry, sanity and stories. The plot follows Alma Cruz — a writer who inherits a plot of land in the Dominican Republic, where she has the goal of laying to rest her untold, unwritten stories and their character. But some stories refuse to remain buried, and haunt the author. Alma’s groundskeeper Filomena becomes her confidant and becomes witness to the stories that haunt the writer. Through these haunting fictional figures come to life, the author (the character and real-life person) end up exploring the central theme of whose stories get told and shared, and which are simply forgotten, buried?