Must Read Mondays at Brownell Library

in person and online - Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, 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 the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Soon the book characters begin to defy their author. Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Julie Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end. Register to receive the link. Books available at Brownell Library.