Family Lore: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
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.
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Readers say *Family Lore* by Elizabeth Acevedo is a poetic, emotionally rich exploration of family and legacy, featuring magical elements and multiple...
I appreciated the Latino culture throughout the book. It felt very authentic. The creation of the term alpha vagina was a nice touch too. I am conflicted about whether the excessive sexual contact throughout the book was meant to be comedic or serious. It felt like something out of White Lotus or Shameless. I don’t mind extreme violence, excessive sex, or graphic content, but there has to be a greater purpose for it all.
I could not in good conscience recommend this book. It was a drag to finish. Sorry.
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