Evening Book Group: The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Enjoy a stimulating conversation about books and exchange perspectives about characters and plot while getting to know your neighbors. Join us on October 16 as we discuss The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez.

Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener as Alma’s characters unspool their secret tales. Among them: Bienvenida, the abandoned second wife of dictator Rafael Trujillo, consigned to oblivion by history, and Manuel Cruz, Alma's father and a doctor who escaped the Dominican Republic after being targeted for his activism in the Dominican underground.

This book is available to borrow from the library. Book group reserve copies will be available roughly one month before the group meets.

The SBPL Evening Book Group ordinarily meets in the Community Room on the 4th Thursday of every month. In October, we will meet on the third Thursday.

Email sbplprograms@southburlingtonvt.gov or call 802-846-4140 if you have questions, to get the Zoom link, or would like to be added to the email list for this group.