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    Family Lore: A Novel
    Family Lore: A Novel
    Family Lore: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    Family Lore: A Novel

    Written by Elizabeth Acevedo

    Narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo, Sixta Morel and Danyeli Rodriguez del Orbe

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    • Family

    • Personal Growth

    • Identity

    • Family Relationships

    • Self-Discovery

    • Fish Out of Water

    • Forbidden Love

    • Family Secrets

    • Prodigal Son

    • Other Woman

    • Found Family

    • Family Drama

    • Unrequited Love

    • Haunted Past

    • Cultural Clash

    • Love

    • Family Dynamics

    • Relationships

    • Memory

    • Cultural Identity

    About this audiobook

    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

    Editor's Note

    Award-winning author…

    In her adult debut, Acevedo (author of the National Book Award-winning “The Poet X”) follows the always spirited, often magical lives of the Marte women. Several members of this Dominican American family are blessed with gifts, like Flor’s ability to predict the time and nature of everyone’s death. She plans her own “living wake,” bringing the family together as they’re all dealing with dramas, crises, and surprises. A woman-centric family saga written with heart and humor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 1, 2023
    ISBN9780063207295
    Author

    Elizabeth Acevedo

    ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award. She is also the author of With the Fire on High—which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal—and Clap When You Land, which was a Boston Globe–Horn 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 Writer’s Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her family.

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    Reviews for Family Lore

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    Readers find this title to be a mixed bag. Some reviewers found it to be a slog, with forgettable characters and unpleasant adult content. Others, however, praised the author's writing and found it to be amazing. While there were negative reviews, there were also positive ones, making it a polarizing read.

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    • 5/5

      Jul 3, 2024

      Marvelous! Story, structure, philosophy, myth - all too too wonderful! Thank-you, Ms Acevedo!!!
    • 4/5

      Mar 26, 2024

      This book is a good read. I enjoyed the audible version as it made the characters easier to follow. There were times that I struggled even so to keep the sisters apart. Great info about the DR and the family ties that bind us no matter how far from home we go.
    • 3/5

      Jan 18, 2024

      This was a slow but enjoyable story of all the intricacies of a family and the ways we lean on and pull away from one another through all of life. It was confusing at times to know who's view we were looking at the world from. But it was nice.
    • 2/5

      Sep 24, 2023

      I think the author failed at writing this book. She needs to stay YA. I was very disappointed and couldn't stay with it. I was an anticipated book, but sadly, it is a miss.
    • 5/5

      Sep 22, 2023

      I loved, loved this book! I was so sad when it ended! Acevedo is a phenomenal writer.
    • 1/5

      Sep 22, 2023

      Absolute slog to get through this book. Kitchen sink drama with no actual interesting drama. Characters are all forgettable. Had no idea who the author was, but now the fact that she is a YA author makes total sense: she tries way too eye-rollingly hard to include adult content that is just unpleasant to read.
    • 5/5

      Sep 22, 2023

      Acevedo can do no wrong in my book. Her first adult fiction was as amazing as the rest of her works.
    • 5/5

      Sep 22, 2023

      A family erotica in the sense that each person has their own identity and their own way of making love to life and embracing their gifts talents, faults and misgivings or at least balancing them the way us humans do it best, with chaos and revelry