Book description
'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)
'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times
'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle
An electrifying memoir set in the Salvadoran Civil War:
the true story of a young…
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Why read it?
1 author picked What You Have Heard Is True as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This sharp-edged, astonishing, and painfully vivid memoir by a fine poet will stick in your brain. It’s about war and the meaning of war in the moral lives of serious people.
Forché is one of my favorite poets, and I’ve kept up with her over the decades. But this was a real surprise, written with wonderfully imagistic prose, a poet’s prose.
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