Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

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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 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.

A Best Book of 2023 from: Washington Post * Good Housekeeping * Real Simple * Harper's Bazaar * Elle * Time * NPR

Elizabeth Acevedo graduated from The George Washington University with a BA in Performing Arts and a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, CantoMundo Fellow, and Callaloo Writer's Workshop participant, as well as a National Poetry Slam Champion. Her writing has been or will appear in the Notre Dame Review, Callaloo, Puerto Del Sol, Poet Lore, and Beltway Quarterly, among other publications. BEASTGIRLS & OTHER ORIGIN MYTHS, a finalist for the YesYes Books Vinyl 45 Contest, was released in October 2016, while Medusa Reads La Negra's Palm, the winner of the 2016 Berkshire Award, will be published by Tupelo Press. She currently resides in Washington, DC.