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A family full of women question their lives before a ‘living wake’ in the Carnegie medal-winning novelist’s triumphant first book for adults
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] The full title of this review by Kevin Canfield (Star Tribune) is “Review: Is the heroine of “Family Lore” predicting her own death, or does she just want a party?” Canfield writes, “A funny, poignant novel focuses on a Dominican-American woman holding an…
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reviews Elizabeth Acevedo’s Family Lore for NPR. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. Also see previous post New Book: Family Lore.] Flor Marte knows someone will die. She knows when and how, because it came to her in a dream. That's her gift – all the…
A winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature is out with a debut novel for adults. Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore is about sisterhood and memory in a Dominican-American family.