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.
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Laila Lalami on "The Other Americans" | 2019 National Book Festival
Amitav Ghosh on "Gun Island" | 2019 National Book Festival
Markus Zusak on "Bridge of Clay" | 2019 National Book Festival
Faith Erin Hicks on "Pumpkinheads" | 2019 National Book Festival
Charlie Jane Anders on "The City in the Middle of the Night" | 2019 National Book Festival
R.J. Palacio on "White Bird" | 2019 National Book Festival
Ngozi Ukazu on "Check Please!" | 2019 National Book Festival
John Scalzi on "The Consuming Fire" | 2019 National Book Festival
Holly Black on "The Wicked King" | 2019 National Book Festival
Richard Ford on "Let Me be Frank" | 2019 National Book Festival
Erica Jong on "Fear of Dying" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Erica Jong on "Fear of Dying" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
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