Family Lore: A Novel
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A┬аGOOD MORNING AMERICA┬аBOOK CLUB PICK!
Winner of the NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
From National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women
Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wakeтАФa party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life sheтАЩs ledтАФher sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone elseтАЩs? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.
But Flor isnтАЩt 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,┬аFamily Lore┬аtraces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, Santo Domingo and New York City. Told with Elizabeth AcevedoтАЩs inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and niecesтАФone familyтАЩs journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come.
A Best Book of 2023 from: Washington Post * Good Housekeeping * Real Simple * Harper's Bazaar * Elle * Time * NPR
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ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young PeopleтАЩs Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpr├й Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston GlobeтАУHorn Book Award, and the Walter Award. She is also the author of With the Fire on HighтАФwhich was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library JournalтАФand Clap When You Land, which was a Boston GlobeтАУHorn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo, and a participant in the Callaloo WriterтАЩs Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her loves.
