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Title What you have heard is true : a memoir of witness and resistance / Carolyn Forché.
Author Forché, Carolyn, author.
Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
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 Fairview Shores  B FORCHE    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B FORCHE    Check Shelves
 Southwest  B FORCHE    Check Shelves
Description 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Summary 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.
Subject Forché, Carolyn.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- El Salvador -- Biography.
El Salvador -- History -- 1944-1979.
Government, Resistance to -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780525560371 (hardcover) : $28.00
0525560378 (hardcover)