What You Have Heard Is TrueBy: Carolyn Forch 'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' San Francisco Chronicle An electrifying memoir set in the Salvadoran Civil War: the true story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire Carolyn Forch, an American poet, is 27 when a mysterious stranger called Leonel appears on