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Finished this (as well as One Dark Window) in the last 24 hrs. Both are excellent! I listened to this one, and the narrator was great. Out of the two, I liked One Dark Window more. Both are great!

“Alma once had a friend, a writer, who for years before she died, relatively young, was always talking about this one story she had to write down.”

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Started this book. A writer decides to start a literal cemetery for all of her untold stories when she inherits a plot of land near the city dump. She wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas. I haven‘t gotten to any buried characters yet, but so far, so good.

Finished this one tonight, & I liked this much more than Afterlife. Short stories about the same family—a large Dominican family but mostly focused on parents & their 4 girls. Different structure because it starts when they‘re older, then goes back in time. I enjoyed the stories, except there was a mean incident with a cat in one.

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A very interesting story, it starts out slow and picks up enough to be intriguing. There are several stories that end up connecting. Beautiful writing about Dominican history and families. Book #120 in 2024

#12Booksof2024 April was a great reading month for me and contributed a few books to my best-of-2024 list. My fav non-fiction came from this month (and from #naturalitsy : 8 Bears), but ultimately I guess I'm just a sucker for Acevedo. Plus, this novel did such an expert job exploring the diversity of women's experiences in an immigrant family that I was enthralled.