Family Lore

Hardback Published on: 10/08/2023
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Family Lore
Family in its many forms
What would you do if a family member decided to throw their own wake, whilst they were still living? How would you react if you knew that that family membe... READ MORE
Shivani at Leicester Highcross
Family Lore
An exciting start to Acevedo’s career in adult fiction
I really enjoyed this! I didn’t know too much about it before I went in, just knew it was a generational family saga about a family from the Dominican Repu... READ MORE
Bella at Canterbury

Synopsis

The Marte women are preparing for a gathering that will change their lives forever.

Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to host her own living wake - bringing together her family and community to celebrate her long life - her sisters Matilde, Pastora and Camila are concerned. What has she foreseen?

But Flor isn't the only one with a secret. Matilde has tried to hide the extent of her husband's infidelity for years, and now must confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora - always on a mission to solve her sisters' problems - needs to come to terms with her past. And Camila, the youngest sibling, has decided she no longer wants to be taken for granted. Alongside their struggles, the next generation of Marte women face their own tumult of family obligations, infertility, and heartache.

Spanning the three days prior to the wake, Family Lore traces the intertwining stories of these sisters and cousins, mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, to ask the ultimate question: what does it take to live a good life, for yourself and those you love?

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781805300489
  • Number of pages: 384
  • Dimensions: 220 x 144 x 35 mm
  • Weight: 494g
  • Languages: English

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Family Lore
A poignant story of immigration and magical realism
In recent years I have loved the influx of multigenerational, multicultural and often multilingual stories that explore the beautiful complexity of family ... READ MORE
Lisa768
Family Lore
Worth a read
liked the premise of this book, with the stories of the 6 females of one family, with most of them having something different about them, like Flor, whose ... READ MORE
Gee Wood
Family Lore
A Brave Novel
I think that this was a brave novel. It tells the story of a family originally from the Dominican Republic (DR) who have moved to the United States of Amer... READ MORE
Peter Willoughby
Family Lore
heavy and insightful
3.5 stars rounded up Life and death, love and hate, new and old - this is a book that explores varying perspectives and experiences as it weaves together ... READ MORE
Bryanna M
Family Lore
A beautifully written female-dominated family story
I was really looking forward to this, having loved the author's YA books. The characters were well-drawn and complicated. There were a lot of them, and a ... READ MORE
Kathryn Picken
Family Lore
Highly recommended
There's a family of strong women, all of them need to change something or are ready for great changes. There's magic realsm, strong emotions, and well writ... READ MORE
AMG
Family Lore
Worth a read
I liked the premise of this book, with the stories of the 6 females of one family, with most of them having something different about them, like Flor, whos... READ MORE
Gee Wood