A review by bookreviewswithkb
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

thank you so much to @netgalley and @algonquinbooks for the early review copy! this comes out April 2nd, 2024

my star ratings are based significantly on the amount of feeling i have while reading the book - this book had me feeeeling and wondering and reflecting. Julia Alvarez is such an incredible writer 

this book is about how our stories humanize us, how stories build empathy and connect our sense of humanity together. how the lack of our stories being told leaves us buried beneath the weight of silence, of misunderstanding. the stories of ourselves, of our love, our mistakes, our shame. of our countries, of their love, their mistakes, their shame

“…these were precisely the characters Alma felt drawn to. The silenced ones, their tongues cut off; wives and daughters taking dictation from their husbands or fathers, improving and revising, in fact cowriting the epics, the sonnets, the ballads, with never a credit to their names. Generations of Anons.”
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