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SUMMARY:Wednesday Night Readers
UID:13958
DTSTAMP:20260423T015900Z
DTSTART:20251015T233000Z
DTEND:20251016T003000Z
LOCATION:Byron Public Library District, 100 S Washington St., Byron, IL 61
 010, United States
ROOM: Classroom 1
DESCRIPTION:Ima Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery o
 f 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, he
 r homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it in to a place to bury
  her untold stories - literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscrip
 t drafts and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to l
 ife and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. 
 But they have other ideas and soon begin to defy their author: they talk b
 ack to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising
  themselves. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a
  sympathetic listener to the secret tales unspooled by Alma's charact
 ers. Among them, Bienvenida, dictator Rafael Trujillo's abandoned wif
 e who was erased from the official history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who 
 fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States.The C
 emetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose bu
 ried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in 
 the everlasting vitality of stories. Julia Alvarez reminds us that the sto
 ries of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.  
URL:https://www.byronlibrary.org/event/wednesday-night-readers-13958
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