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Readers Club | Julia Alvarez

51m 48s

Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of the novel, 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.

Aired: 09/24/24
Readers Club | Julia Alvarez
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