'Beautiful prose even-handed magic and all the pains and triumphs of intergenerational bonds'
KILEY REID author of Such A Fun Age and Come and Get It 'Undeniably beautiful' Sunday Times
Flor has a gift: she can predict to the day when someone will die. So when she decides to
throw her own living wake her sisters are concerned. What has she foreseen? Planning the
celebration brings further complications for the Marte family because 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. Family Lore traces the intertwining stories of five
women: sisters and cousins mothers and daughters aunts and nieces to ask the ultimate
question - what does it take to live a good life for yourself and those you love?