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.

Here is a description of the book from Goodreads.com: 

"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, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States.

The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories."

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

The SBPL Evening Book Group ordinarily meets in the Community Room on the 4th Thursday of every month, although for October only, we are meeting on the third Thursday, October 16.

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.