Two new novels investigate what makes magic, what is real and imagined
Both of these novels, Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories, from an emerging writer and a long-celebrated one, respectively, walk an open road of remembering love, grief, and fate.
by Marcela Davison Avilés
May 15, 2024
3 minutes
In an enchanted world, where does mystery begin? Two authors pose this question in new novels out this spring.
In by the Mexican magical realism interrogator-author Diego Gerard Morrison, the protagonist is a Mexican writer named Aureliano Más II who is at war with his memory of familial sorrow and — you guessed it — magical realism. And the protagonist Alma Cruz in Julia Alvarez's latest novel, is also a writer. Alma seeks to bury her unpublished stories in a graveyard of her own making, in order
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