![]() ![]() The focus of What You Have Heard Is True is not, however, on its author. Why was Carolyn Forché, a poet by trade and inclination, drawn to such a place? The answer is part of the magic of this memoir, as she finds herself pulled into scenes of ferocity and puzzled by her own motivations. ![]() She witnessed first-hand the inequality, the insurgency, and then the inhumanity that followed. She stayed until her safety was violently threatened. What You Have Heard Is True exposes every angle of American interference in Central American politics by putting a personal face on the murderous effects of greed, corruption, military intervention, and blind indifference.įorché first went to El Salvador in 1978, just before the tiny country suffered a destabilizing insurrection. ![]() Then Carolyn Forché got to El Salvador, and I was hooked. Even the sub-title, “Witness and Resistance,” didn’t attract me, and the first fifty pages or so-the set-up-seemed a bit slow. I said, “Okay, I’ll read the memoir,” but I honestly wasn’t very interested in El Salvador twentieth century in-fighting. A friend loaned me What You Have Heard Is True, predicting that I would really like it. I can’t recall reading another book about a topic absolutely foreign to me that went like an arrow to my heart. WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A MEMOIR OF WITNESS AND RESISTANCE ![]()
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