Book 2019

What You Have Heard Is True

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Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2019

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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.