From bestselling, award—winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives. Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So, when she decides she wants a living wake-a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she's led-her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else's? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila. But Flor isn't the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own. Spanning the three days prior to the wake, “Family Lore” traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, Santo Domingo and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts, and nieces-one family's journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come.
Three narrators portray the viewpoints of a family of uncommon women who are leading full, magical lives. Author Elizabeth Acevedo narrates the majority of the novel; her poignant turns of phrase and delivery in both English and Spanish provide a musical listening experience. She takes a more neutral stance when expressing the words of Ona, who is interviewing her aunties for her anthropological r
