In What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, author Carolyn Forché reflects on the time she spent in El Salvador in the late 1970s, as the country veered towards civil war. Forché especially focuses on her relationship with an eccentric and mysterious Salvadoran man named Leonel, who tries to show her the reality of the country at the time. This memoir touches on a wide variety of themes including poetry and art, war and violence, and the importance of witnessing.
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