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What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

by Carolyn Forché

400 pages · 2019

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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.

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