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FAMILY LORE - ELIZABETH ACEVEDO KARTONIERT (TB)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK 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 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

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