Family Lore

by Elizabeth Acevedo

First published 2023

Flor Marte can predict the exact day someone will die. When she announces plans for her own living wake, her three sisters panic. What death has Flor foreseen? Matilde has spent years hiding her husband's affairs and must finally face her crumbling marriage. Pastora, always trying to fix everyone else's problems, needs to reckon with her own past. Camila, the youngest, refuses to be overlooked any longer. Their daughters and nieces wrestle with their own burdens of family duty, fertility struggles, and broken hearts. Over three days before the wake, the Marte women confront what they've hidden from each other and themselves. Elizabeth Acevedo weaves together their intersecting stories of pain and joy across generations, asking what it means to live well for yourself and the people you love.

Genres: family, literary-fiction, contemporary

Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking

Tropes: found-family, sisters

377 pages · Kindle Edition · Canongate Books

Content warnings: death

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