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Family Lore

By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo, Sixta Morel, Danyeli Rodriguez del Orbe
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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

©2023 Elizabeth Acevedo (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers
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Not for me

I wasn't expecting the sexual content and that really threw me. The story was hard to follow moving in and out of people and places.

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Excellent storytelling and amazing writing!

Elizabeth Acevedo is an excellent writer. Her stories are a pleasure to listen to.

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Absolutely Beautiful!

The most beautiful story told of family, traditions, legends and so much more. Thank you Elizabeth for writing this glorious book! As a Dominicana I related so much.

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Absolutely stunning book!

This book brought me back to my roots. I felt like I was back in the campo, sitting under the Mango trees. Elizabeth is an amazing writer who has pure magic when it comes to telling a story. I highly recommend!!

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I loved it

Books that I’ve enjoyed on audible from Elizabeth, Acevedo, and I love that she reads books and brief lives into each character, this was one of my favorites. I could not stop listening, I enjoyed every detail and learning about all of these fascinating women in the family from this novel.

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Culture

I loved the way the Author displayed her culture proudly! She gave confirmation as well as explanation of the culture.

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Was disappointed

I kept hoping the story would grab me but I found it difficult to follow the characters. Was hoping this had been a historical family lore. I’m not a prude but parts of the book were not my preferred reading choice.

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Beautiful

Such a beautiful story. This made me feel all kinds of things and at the same time it was just so moving in all the right ways. I have this longing now, longing for family, for understanding life and death and I’m not mad about the little tears I shed while listening to this masterpiece! Truly a story that many can connect to in a way that is foundational to our being. I know this review gives nothing away but I found this text to be magical and these are the only words I could find to describe it.

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Very confusing, especially as an Audiobook.

There are a lot of characters introduced quickly and elaborated on through the this novel and this became confusing, especially since the recording didn’t include the chapter titles to indicate who was narrating. I enjoyed the author’s writing style and the narrators all had excellent voices, but I spent too much time trying to figure out who was who and also thought the crude parts about the character with the “Alpha Vagina” cheapened the story. The other family powers were interesting and deep and this felt part felt forced for shock value or edginess. I would have stopped listening if this hadn’t been a book club selection, but I’m glad I pushed through and heard the ending in the author’s words and not just as a bookclub wrap up.

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I feel

I feel so many things. I feel as though I got to know long lost family that I had been searching for. I feel as though I found myself in these pages. I found love, forgiveness, strength, & POWER in these words. Elizabeth Acevedo is gifted and I am grateful to have found her litterateur. Thank you for this beautiful story of beautiful, strong, powerful women. Thank you

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