Captivated for reasons she doesn't fully understand, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension. He has driven from El Salvador to invite Forché to visit and learn about his country. She's heard rumors from her friend about who he might be: a lone wolf, a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer, but according to her, no one seemed to know for certain. The relative of a friend, he is a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it is brilliant.
Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman's radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.Ĭarolyn Forché is twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appears on her doorstep. What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire
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