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Book 2020

What You Have Heard Is True

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Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Language
English
Published
2020
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Poets, biography
  • El salvador, history
  • Political activists
  • Biography
  • History
  • Resistance to Government
  • American Poets

Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.