The Book Show | Julia Alvarez – The Cemetery of Untold Stories [encore airing]

The Book Show | Julia Alvarez – The Cemetery of Untold Stories [encore airing]

Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of “In the Time of the Butterflies” and “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,” returns with “The Cemetery of Untold Stories” - a novel about storytelling that reminds us that the events of our lives are never truly finished,...

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