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Family Lore

Autor Elizabeth Acevedo

Editorial HARPER COLLINS

Family Lore
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  • Publisher HARPER COLLINS
  • ISBN13 9780063323704
  • ISBN10 0063323702
  • Type BOOK
  • Pages 384
  • Published 2023
  • Language English
  • Bookbinding Paperback

Family Lore

Autor Elizabeth Acevedo

Editorial HARPER COLLINS

-5% disc.    23,50€
22,33€
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Book details

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: Today.com * Time * Electric Literature * Seattle Times * Telemundo * Washington Post * HipLatina * Harper's Bazaar * Elle * AARP * Shondaland * New York Times * The Millions * LitHub

From the bestselling, National Book Awardwinning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives.

Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wakea party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life shes ledher sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone elses? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.

But Flor isnt 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 Loretraces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, Santo Domingo and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedos inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and niecesone familys journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come.

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